July 3, 2008
Infinite Potential:"500 years ago, oil was not a resource. Neither was uranium. People around at the time didn't know how to use them. Things that weren't resources became resources. Our ability to use new resources made old resources obsolete. Now, no home in the UK needs to burn wood for heat, for example. Or, as Bjorn Lomborg has put it, the Stone Age didn't come to an end because we ran out of stones." - Climate Resistance: Infinite Regress
Posted by Vanderleun at July 3, 2008 5:10 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.