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September 1974 / Magazine Issues
Issue 47: Assessing the Materials Threat
Some findings and conjectures from recent research into resource development and use.
Many years ago a distinguished Frenchman, Marshal Lyautey, asked his gardener to plant a tree, and the gardener said, "Well, this won't flower for a hundred years." And the Marshal said, "In that case, plant it this afternoon."