"**Most modern urbanites are thus disconnected not only from the ways we produce our food but also from the ways we build our machines and devices**, and the growing mechanization of all productive activity means that only a very small share of the global population now engages in delivering civilization’s energy and the materials that comprise our modern world." ([Location 282](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=282)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[urbanisation]], [[ignorance]], [[epistomelogical-challenge]], [[food-production]], [[energy-conversion]], [[manufacturing]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]