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050			_aHF1051 _b.C767 2024
100			_aConway, ED
245			_aMaterial World : _ba substantial story of our past and future / _cED Conway.
250			_aThis edition published in 2024
260			_aLondon: _bWH Allen, _bPenguin Random House, _c2024.
300			_aviii, 501 Pages: _c20 cm.
440			_aPicked as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Economist and New Statesman.
520			_aSand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, 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 earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal. Even as we pare back our consumption of fossil fuels we have redoubled our consumption of everything else. Why? Because these ingredients build everything. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, print our books and packaging.
650			_aRaw Materials.
650			_aSand _xHistory
650			_aSalt _xHistory
650			_aIron _xHistory
650			_aCopper _xHistory
650			_aPetroleum _xHistory
650			_aLithium _xHistory
650			_aMines and Mineral Resources _xHistory _xSocial aspects.
650			_aNatural Resources _xManagement
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