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There are minerals to be discovered and used to our best advantage, petrocarbon wells to be drilled, forest resources to be tended and developed for exploitation.
Eve's Rib Chandler, Bryn 1989
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I personally have no desire to work in a mine or at a petrocarbon well, and I'm sure the rest of us, if we search our true thoughts, feel much the same way.
Eve's Rib Chandler, Bryn 1989
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The problems we are facing right now all originate in our fundamental inability to voluntarily set limits - that is, at no point did most of us even recognize the basic necessity of stopping at a point at which we could get down on our own, without our petrocarbon helpers.
Energy Bulletin - 2010
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As Linda Heard points out in her article "Driving Russia into Enemy's Arms", the petrocarbon war is being lost in stunning fashion:
Infowars 2008
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