Quotes About Resources

Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population.

You think it makes complete sense to have to work for what's free for the taking to every other creature on earth. You alone lock food away from yourselves and then toil to get it back—and imagine that nothing could possibly make better sense.

As they grow, wind and solar and EVs will need "big shovels" to meet their increasing call on mined minerals and land itself. It is estimated that an onshore wind turbine requires fifteen hundred tons of iron, twenty-five hundred tons of concrete, and forty-five tons of plastic. About half a million pounds of raw materials have to be mined and processed to make a battery for an electric car.

Currently, oil use in the developed world averages 14 barrels per person per year. In the developing world, it is only 3 barrels per person. How will the world cope when billions of people go from 3 barrels to 6 barrels per person?

Oil is not merely the heart of the Iraqi economy. In economic terms, Iraq is oil, which makes up over 90 percent of government revenues, over 99 percent of exports, and almost 60 percent of GDP. The World Bank describes Iraq as "the world leader in terms of dependence on oil.

Shale gas was proving to be cheaper than conventional natural gas. In 2000 shale was just 1 percent of natural gas supply. By 2011 it was 25 percent, and within two decades it could reach 50 percent.

North America's natural gas base, now estimated at 3,000 trillion cubic feet, could provide for current levels of consumption for over a hundred years—plus.

The Marcellus shale would turn out to be the second-largest gas province in the world—and possibly the largest.

EOG ended up focused on the Eagle Ford Shale, which underlies South Texas.

By the time they were done, EOG's land men had acquired half a million acres at $400 an acre. EOG thought it had acquired almost a billion barrels of oil.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education" —and not a dime or a thought on character.

We have, in fact, been turning our country into an economy as fast as possible, and we have been doing so by an unaccounted squandering of its actual, its natural and its cultural, wealth.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Si los conocimientos agrícolas existentes se aplicasen en todas partes, el planeta podría alimentar al doble de su población actual.

War is a nation's way of eating.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them. Nothing

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

It's like some folks has the smooth, pretty boards to build a courthouse with and others dont have no more than rough lumber fitten to build a chicken coop. But it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse, and when they both build shoddy or build well, neither because it's one or tother is going to make a man feel the better nor the worse.