“The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.” EnergyAnimalLandSourceOceanMassResourcesAreasTradePlantCommerceMineralsPlants And AnimalsAnimal LifeEnergy SourcesJurisdictionTotemsOffshoreMineral Resources Author:Tom Allen
“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.” MenWorldMeanArtImportantStatesPhilosophyWholeUseNaturalPrinciplesObjectsChangedSourceDegreesAspectTradeAffairProductionsPracticalsWhole WorldInternalsApplicationEngineeringAnticipationTrafficConvenienceCivil EngineerCivil EngineeringNatural Philosophy Author:Thomas Tredgold
“If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.” IfsThinkingNationsNaturalTakenSourceResourcesTradeDependentContinentsNatural ResourcesDeveloped Nations Author:Stevie Wonder
“What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.” ThinkingWayMightInterestingViewsNumbersRecordsWrittenEconomicPolicySourceTrumpSpeechLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsPoint Of ViewVersionsAgreementSectionsTanksReally InterestingInstituteFree TradeEconomic PolicyLabor UnionFootnotesTrade Agreements Author:Avik Roy
“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.” ThinkingHas BeensEnergySourceTrumpTaxesSpeechIntellectualTradeStructureFavorsCampaignsImmigrationReformDevelopingConsistentTrailsFree TradeEnergy SourcesTax ReformFrackingHydraulic Fracturing Author:Avik Roy
“Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.” WorldSourceKeysTradeSaudisBoliviaLithium Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.” EnergySimpleEconomicSourceTaxesBenefitsSolutionsTradeCleanFuelCarbonFossilsShiftingCapsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesImplementingBurning Fossil FuelsRenewable Energy Sources Author:David Suzuki