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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight ess. The imperial authorities and the telegraph companies gave little thought to the future of a precious f

how can this relate to the resources we use today?

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Until the nineteenth century, messages traveled with often excruciating slo

Can show how fast a technology can become obsolete, or a new technological breakthrough can create so much change.

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight ank stare. It is difficult to think of another once-ubiquitous industrial and domestic commodity that has been so comprehensively forgotten as this ra

obsolete technologies can also mean building materials.

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight 40 The strategic imperative also meant that the British were keen to ensure the development of what was known at the time as an "all red line" to connect the outposts of their far-flung empire without it ever passing over for

Indication that privacy was a concern for nations when constructing their telegraph lines.

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight t on the moon. It was a major step down the road of what we today cal

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight illion in 1898.60 Even if for the sake of argument we halve these figures and halve them again, it is clear that this was an unsustainable onslaught on a finite resource that took up to twenty-eight years to mature, even though the Isonandra is relatively fast growing compared with oth

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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Collins advocated what we today would call sustainable extraction of gutta-percha: for every tree cut down, he argued, the colonial governments involved should ensure that three or

Society was too greedy. They could have turned this into a sustainable resource with this method. However, could the trees regrow fast enough before they are needed for harvest again?

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