July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
Dr David Greenfield, Managing Director of SOENECS Ltd
ONE OF THE GREAT POLITICIANS of the early 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt, had views that would today be lauded as forward-thinking and circular in their context. He started his seventh annual message to Congress on 3 December 1907 with the claim: ‘The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.’ He went on to state: ‘To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining ...