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AT the recent conference on the conservation of resources which met at the White House at the invitation of the President of the United States, notes of warning were sounded concerning the coming exhaustion of coal, wood, ores, and soils. Whether or not we accept as exact the estimates furnished by experts on that impressive occasion, there is no doubt that we are approaching the end of our available resources, and that the near future will have momentous problems to face.
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Science and the Practical Problems of the Future . Nature 79, 325–327 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079325a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/079325a0