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IT would be difficult to overstress the importance of making the maximum use of the available coal in Great Britain ; our survival as a first-class nation may indeed come to depend on the answers we give to some of the fundamental questions concerning the proper use of coal. Individually, they are well understood, and there is no great divergence of opinion as to the facts. Collectively, there is a lack of agreement as to policy, and a strange and fatal apathy on the part of Ministries and the fuel industries. This lack of understanding in the past has in no small measure brought about the present unfortunate and serious state of affairs, where confessedly we are unable to supply the consumer with our only native mineral, albeit the demand is less than in peace-time.
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COAL CONSERVATION IN GREAT BRITAIN. Nature 151, 61–62 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151061a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151061a0