¶ Metals: Recirculation of Metals
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Metals: Recirculation of Metals:
"instrument; you cannot have that instrument without getting metals from three continents of our Earth. So the complexity of this new technology involved the resources of around the Earth and not the local. This had been so strong on the guarding-- the conditioned reflexes-- there were enough changes by World War I for the simple reason that it was due to the metals rather than the vegetation…
“This is really what has been going on in the last 100 years. So we have then this new picture of man dealing in total world resources. World War I then was the first time when we went over from man-as-muscle-on-the-farm and this hunting, and so forth, and fishing-- to man empowered by tools. Because the essence of World War I was: Who is ready to produce the tools that made tools? Production is the word for World War I and it was, then, the first great energy war.”
