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I tilted toward reading more #Canadian #books in 2025, for reasons I probably don’t have to explore here, with some extremely favourable results. Here’s my piece on last year’s top #reads. doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five... #BookSky #CanadaSky #CharlesTaylor #VaclavSmil #Canada

Five Most Notable Books I Read...

Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

Numéro 240/1 - En attendant Nadeau Jan 27

Un aggiornamento alimentaire

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jan 5

My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

Five Most Notable Books I Read...

Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 9

“A disproportionate share of people in charge of national #policies are #economists, #lawyers and #techno-optimists … who rarely think about the biosphere’s indispensability for the #survival of #human #societies.” - #VaclavSmil, #Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 2

2 “But #economists have been trying to do precisely that for more than two centuries.” - #VaclavSmil, #Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 2

#VaclavSmil on #GDP in his book #Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities: “This adulation of a simple quotient seen in isolation is irrational.”

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 2

2 “ … and treat the depletion of finite #resources as current income that adds to #wealth.” - #VaclavSmil, #Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities.