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March 14, 2015
No nonrenewable resource has ever run dry, while renewable resources—whales, cod, forests, passenger pigeons—have frequently done so.
The Atlantic Ocean is finite, but that does not mean that you risk bumping into France if you row out of a harbor in Maine. The buffalo of the American West were infinite, in the sense that they could breed, yet they came close to extinction. It is an ironic truth that no nonrenewable resource has ever run dry, while renewable resources—whales, cod, forests, passenger pigeons—have frequently done so. Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really) - WSJ
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 14, 2015 5:24 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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What is a nonrenewable resource?
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Posted by: ghostsniper at March 14, 2015 6:24 PM
What we don't need we will not keep.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 15, 2015 7:41 AM