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Natural Resources
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Developing sound policies requires seeing natural resources as dividends of sustained ecosystem productivity rather than as a stockpile of assets.
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― A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
― A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
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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
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― Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
― Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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