By John A. Wolfe (auth.)
This quantity discusses the mineral assets upon which sleek civiliza tion is equipped. remove those minerals and humanity will swiftly go back to the stone age, with its maximum predicament the depletion of flint (also a mineral). it should, after all, lead to a few ninety nine% aid in inhabitants. In different phrases, nearly ninety nine% of the worlds' inhabitants depends on minerals for its life. that may be a beautiful robust assertion, yet what number have even visible a travois? with no minerals, pack animals, rafts, rowboats, sail boats, sledges, and the backs of guy will be the purely varieties of shipping. enough nutrients couldn't be transported, nor might or not it's grown on our drained soils with out tractors and fertilizer. Even within the extra fertile tropics the place approximately half the inhabitants is now struggling with malnutrition, plants are depending on "miracle" grains that require mechanization and mineral fertilizers. glossy structures can't function with out electrical energy and, with no mineral fuels, few humans within the northern latitudes might live to tell the tale the 1st winter.
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S. S. government would have had to pay to buy the equivalent amount. This foolish policy was finally halted, the price shot up, and mines with a substantial gold co-product were able to open or maintain operation. The case of silver is quite similar. A buy-and-sell price control was set, which initially operated as a subsidy. S. Treasury bought huge amounts and then issued silver certificates (paper money backed by the silver), so there was no "cost" to the government. 29 per ounce. The selling price of 92 cents an ounce for the metal aroused no interest for years, until production fell behind consumption.
It does not establ ish objective standards on licenses. It sets up a "system of privileges" which discriminates strongly against private enterprise. S. and other industrial nations in the form of the extensive research, exploration, and development paid for by private parties, amounting to confiscation of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of proprietary information. It would commit the Enterprise to fund movements of national liberation, such as the Palestine Liberation Organization (Science, 1982 (215): p.
Has become the pulpit of the developing nations for trying to enforce this change in world economic structure. If the industrial nations want to avoid "averaging down" of their economic systems, they urgently need to undertake research on alternate energy sources. They must prepare for an accelerated program to develop marine mineral resources, open to participation by all nations. The United States needs to outgrow its self-flagellation complex and establish national priorities. Are snail darters (a small fish living within a reservoir site in Tennessee), grizzly bears, and inaccessible wilderness areas more important than electricity, automobiles, machinery, and homes?