Earth Sciences 1070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Hutton, Water Cycle, Geologic Time Scale
26 Jan 2016
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1. 0 introduction: the present is a link to the past. Our dependency on extractable resources has increased exponentially with the advent of the industrial revolution. Our modern lives now depend on billions of tonnes of extracted resources for our daily existence. The first law of conservation of matter states that one cannot create matter, instead one can only convert it to other forms. Plastics are a synthetic compound that has been developed and they do not occur naturally. Petroleum is a non-renewable resource that requires the extraction of oil from the earth. An exploitable resource leads to creation of or sustaining an existing mining or oil company. A mining/oil company provides raw material for the manufacturing industry. Raw materials are used for the manufacturing of products such as equipment, cloths, goods etc. 1. 0. 2 the politics of the earth"s resources history is replete with empires expanding their domains to acquire new resources. The roman empire expanded and conquered much of modern.
