52. The Limits to Growth - Donella & Dennis Meadows

 

"If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.  The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population an industrial capacity."  1972

A YouTube explanation I like is by Georg Rockall-Schmidt (parts one, two and three).

7. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

Half way through I was thinking I'm not learning anything new, then came the connection between time and thermodynamics.  Why didn't I know this before?  Or did I and I have forgotten?

Anyway a short book which helped break a period where it seems I haven't read, although in reality, it's more a case of I haven't finished a book recently.  Below a picture of the books I have finished reading this year, and the piles of books under my bed with just the first few chapters read!