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“You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you.”
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
“This is a magical metal: alongside hydrogen and helium it was one of the three primordial elements created in the Big Bang, making it one of the oldest pieces of matter in the universe. No other element has quite the same combination of lightness, conductivity and electrochemical power.”
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
“A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount of sediment moved each year by Earth’s natural erosive processes, which is to say rivers grinding away sand and sending it down towards the sea. Humans, in other words, are a considerably bigger geological force than nature itself, and have been, according to the data, ever since 1955. Or – another way of looking at it – by 2020 the total weight of human-made products, from iron to concrete and everything else besides, was greater than the total weight of every natural living thing on the planet.”
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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