CHAPTER 13
Non-renewable Resources
Summary
Points to remember from this chapter:
Quotes for Reflection
Geologists have estimated that if a single thimbleful of water were poured into a river, after only a few years the circulation on a global scale would be so complete that a similar thimbleful of water taken from anywhere on Earth would contain some molecules from the original thimbleful. Others have expressed much the same idea regarding atmospheric circulation by estimating that every breath of air we inhale contains molecules that were once breathed by Galileo, Aristotle, and the dinosaurs.
— Chaisson 2001:1938
If we look around we can evidence on all sides of the wonderful revolution which oil has wrought upon our very existence. It has brought in the motorcar for pleasure and commerce…it has contributed to the conquest of the air, and is even revolutionising movement across the seven sees… it has directly provided us with the fastest and most formidable capital warship afloat… It may be said in very truth that the community is becoming daily more and more dependent upon petroileum; it promises to survive as one the one force which will drive the world.
— Talbot, All About Inventions and Discoveries. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1916
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