Natural Resources


The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
Salt: A World History
The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
The Lorax
Dear Children of the Earth
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
The Mighty Red
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Spindletop Gusher by Carmen BredesonThe Prize by Daniel YerginEnergy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North... by David E. NaugleThe Quest by Daniel YerginThe Boom by Russel Gold
Oil & Gas Mineral Rights
6 books — 3 voters
Michigan Turtles and Lizards by James H. HardingMichigan Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders by James H. HardingMichigan Snakes by J. Alan Holman
MSU Extension Books
3 books — 1 voter

Land on Fire by Gary FergusonThe Forest Of Fire by Erik OhlsenFirestorm by Nevada BarrWho Needs a Forest Fire? by Paula HensonThe Black Stallion and Satan by Walter Farley
Wildfire Reading
36 books — 2 voters

Developing sound policies requires seeing natural resources as dividends of sustained ecosystem productivity rather than as a stockpile of assets.
Daniel C Esty, A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

Lewis Dartnell
Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it in just a few centuries. While there are concerns over peak oil and the diminishing supply of crude, there is plenty of accessible coal still underground – certainly another few centuries’ worth at current consumption rates. In this sense, then, we’re not currently facing another energy crisis but a ...more
Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

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