Ed Conway's “Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization” (Knopf) looks at the influence of the elements iron, copper and lithium — along with salt, oil and sand.

The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could. Editorial Standards Reprints & Permissions ...

Modern civilization is HUMAN, PLANETARY, and ECOCIDAL. Pre-industrial civilizations depleted their topsoil, felled their forests, and polluted their rivers. But the harm was far more temporary and ...

I. STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a ...

Player Goals for Civilization 7's Modern Age . Civilization 7's Victories manifest in four different categories: Culture, Economic, Military, and Science. By this point in the game, ...

COAL AND MODERN CIVILIZATION. Share full article. Dec. 16, 1888. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 16, 1888, Page 11 Buy Reprints.

STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a ...