By: Matt Ridley: How Fossil Fuels Helped End Slavery

Matt Ridley: How Fossil Fuels Helped End Slavery — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:48:29 +0000

[...] our technological and political ability to access them (Peter Huber/Mark Mills), and 3) not “natural,” in that their usefulness is not an inherent feature, but rather an artificial human innovation [...]

By: Resources aren’t ‘natural’ and ‘dependence’ on foreign oil is a bogus worry | JunkScience.com

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:28:21 +0000

[...] Robert Bradley: There Are No “Natural Resources” – Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume energy to discover and create more energy through technological advances. Today’s excerpt from Robert Bradley’s 2009 book Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy makes a similar point, that there are no such thing as “natural” resources. As he writes, “Resources without man are not resources.” [...]

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By: Matt Ridley: How Fossil Fuels Helped End Slavery

By: Resources aren’t ‘natural’ and ‘dependence’ on foreign oil is a bogus worry | JunkScience.com