“What makes this all the more discomforting is not merely the bad stuff—the carbon emissions whose consequences we are finally starting to understand, the particulate pollution in our cities and the plastic waste in our seas—but the good stuff too. It is the billions of lives lived thanks to oil and gas. It is the fact that oil and gas are so useful as well as so destructive.”
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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