The iPhone, for example, is made from commodities such as silicon, iron, plastic, steel, and rare
earth metals fashioned into computer chips, screens, and so on.
Not exact matches
IMAGINE for a moment that the last 125,000 years of
Earth's history exist somewhere on a tape — a thick, old -
fashioned ribbon loaded between two
metal drums.
Our great intelligence, our propensity to
fashion new things out of what we find in our environment (be it wood,
metal, or elements in the atomic and subatomic layers) would not have allowed us to do so much damage to the
earth were there not so many riches in the environment out there to be exploited.