Smil, Vaclav

Vaclav Smil is the author of more than thirty books on energy, the environment, food, and the history of technical advances, including "Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature", published by the MIT Press. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. In 2010 he was named by "Foreign Policy "as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.