¶ Human Unsettlement (1)
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World War I was called World War I because the stage on which it was acted was an historically unprecedented and entirely new world-around involvement. All previous wars of humanity related to food-producing lands. The farm boys were taken from the farms to fight the battles. All the food produced was taken from the farms for war support. The warring troops trampled down the farms. When the wars were over, everyone had lost. World War I was called that because it related not to the food-producing lands but to the metals which produce tin cans and refrigeration which effectively conserved, preserved, and facilitated food production and produced steel steamships with which to effect the food’s world-around distribution; which metals lay all around the world and rarely under the farm lands-- all of which world-around metal ore lands were involved in the production of the new inanimate-energy-powered production machinery. (One telephone instrument employs metals from three continents of our planet.)
When World War I was over, the copper in the electric generators and motors did not rot as did the pre-World War I farm produce; nor did the copper return to the mines.
