“I have never been wrong on these major energy and environmental issues because I have nothing to sell,”
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Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and environment…
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Born 9 December 1943 · Q528111
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2026· 2 entries
Awarded Gratias Agit (2026).
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2024· 1 entry
New Scientist: Vaclav Smil’s take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw
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2018· 1 entry
That coal, oil, and natural gas continue to make up 90% of the primary energy sources used in the world
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2013· 1 entry
Was appointed by the Governor General to the Order of Canada
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2010· 1 entry
Was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
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2000· 1 entry
Published “P <scp>HOSPHORUS IN THE</scp> E <scp>NVIRONMENT</scp> : Natural Flows and Human Interferences” in Annual Review of Energy and the Environment — cited 1,021 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Published “Detonator of the population explosion” in Nature — cited 952 times.
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Published “Nitrogen in crop production: An account of global flows” in Global Biogeochemical Cycles — cited 794 times.
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1972· 1 entry
Smil took his first job offer at the University of Manitoba where he remained for decades, until his retirement
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1969· 1 entry
Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and Eva's graduation, the Smils emigrated to the United States, leaving the country months before a Soviet travel ban shut the borders
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-12-09.
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