"Actually, natural resources do not exist at all. All resources are manmade. Something is not a resource until it can accomplish a human purpose. Before Benjamin Silliman, Jr., a Yale University chemist, discovered in 1855 that kerosene (a better illuminant than whale oil) could be distilled from crude oil, oil was not a resource. It was black gunk that ruined farmland and had to be removed at great expense. Silliman turned oil into a resource not by changing its chemical composition but by making a discovery. Nature does not provide resources, only materials. A resource is a material that has been stamped with a human purpose."
-Sheldon Richman, Congressional Testimony, 1995
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GROUP MEMBERS :
1. Justin Goerke (Nuclear Power)
2. Stuart Taylor (Fossil Fuels)
3. Stephen Kingwell (Endangered Species)
4. Michael Evans (Resource Management)
We are all students of Aquinas College .....
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Below are links to information, on four key areas of Resource Depletion
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REFERENCES
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