Yes - what of tomorrow! We of today are fast using up the resources which have taken the earth millions of years to store up for man's use. The coal, oil, nitrates and minerals which mankind has taken from the ground in a hundred years have made big inroads into its total deposits.

Let us assume that we have five centuries of supply, or even ten centuries. Man will live on this planet for millions of years before it spirals out beyond Mars' orbit where human life will cease. What of them?

Are we despoiling the earth for our children of the far tomorrow? Are we emptying its bins for them? Are we profligately robbing even the fertility of our soil and losing it into the sea by robbing the mountainsides of their forests?

The greed and ignorance of a few generations of today can wipe the human race from the face of the earth for long aeons by sheer wastefulness of earth's resources. It would take millions of years for Nature to restore balance by bringing continents with new resources above the seas and taking old and worn out continents under her seas for regeneration. [Walter Russell, A New Concept of the Universe, pages 138-139]
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