Text Size   In the face of today’s environmental and economic
challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off
disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize,
re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear
prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the
catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the
inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter
Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more
abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad
other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented
prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental
protection.  Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to
Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce shows how we
have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions
to our problems. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer,
and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced
drill rigs, Bryce  demonstrates h