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Author
Publisher
WH Allen
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials have demolished civilisations and fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the Earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5000 tons of...
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