The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

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340 pages

English language

Published May 17, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-59420-523-1
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch is a non-fiction reference work written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. It was published in hardback by The Bodley Head in the UK on 3 April 2014 and by The Penguin Press in the US on 17 April 2014. The UK paperback was released by Vintage on 5 March 2015 while the US paperback, retitled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on 10 March 2015 by Penguin Books. The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.

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You decided to build a raised bed to grow some tomatoes this season. As you collect your supplies and start cutting the wood you use a pencil to mark your cuts. You take a closer look at that pencil. What if you wanted to build the pencil instead of the garden bed? Could you?

Not easily. Where would you mine the graphite? Cut the lumber? Harvest the rubber? You likely specialized in field that would help you pay for rent and groceries. You probably only have deep knowledge in that field. If that job disappeared, you would find it difficult to recreate the knowledge required for crop rotation, metallurgy, processing grains, or making a printing press.

In #TheKnowledge, @lewis_dartnell explains how a civilization that collapsed could regain complexity. Reading through his simplified explanations of the processes our complex, precarious world is built on is worth your time.

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