[ Order This Book ] More Info: Author Description Summary Table of Contents Geodestinies: The Inevitable Influence of Earth Resources on Nations and Individuals Author: Walter Lewellyn Youngquist Cover: cover Pages: 500 List Price: $29.95 Published by National Book Company ISBN: 0894202995 Table of Contents Preface 1 Minerals Move Civilization 2 Minerals Move People 3 Minerals and War, and Economic and Political Warfare 4 The Gulf War of 19901991: Iraq Invades Kuwait 5 The Current War Between the States 6 Mineral Microcosms 7 The OneResource Nations 8 The Good Geofortune of the USA 9 The Extraordinary Geodestiny of Saudi Arabia and the Other Persian (Arabian) Gulf Countries 10 Mineral Riches and How They are Spent 11 Minerals, Money, and the PetroCurrencies 12 The Petroleum Interval 13 Alternative Energy Sources: NonRenewable 14 Alternative Energy Sources: Renewable 15 Water Life s Essential Connection to the Earth 16 Minerals From the Ocean 17 Topsoil The Most Valuable Mineral Complex 18 Minerals and Health 19 Strategic Minerals How Strategic are They? 20 Nations and Mineral SelfSufficiency 21 International Access to Minerals Free Trade Versus the Map of Geology 22 Mineral Development and the Environment 23 Efficiency and Conservation To What Purpose? 24 Minerals, Politics, Taxes, and Religion 25 Minerals, Social and Political Structures 26 Mineral Economics 27 Myths and Realities of Mineral Resources 28 Earth Resources, the Future, and the Sustainable Society 29 The Ultimate Resource Can it Secure Our Future? Epilogue Index Index Table 1 World Oil Statistics 1994 Table 2 Estimated World Oil Distribution In Selected Countries 1995 Table 3 Comparative Oil Well Production, By Country 1994 Table 4 Comparison of Average Oil Well Production In Selected States 1994 Table 5 United States Oil Statistics 19701993 Table 6 Oil Reserves In Selected Countries 1974 and 1994 Table 7 Time to Which Current Oil Production Can Be Sustained, By Country Table 8 Barrels of Oil Reserves Per Capita In Selected Countries Table 9 Countries Holding Major Proved Gas Reserves 1975 and 1995 Table 10 World Regional Natural Gas Distribution 1995 Table 11 U.S. Energy Mix 1987 and 2000 Table 12 Alternative Energy Sources Table 13 Percentage of Selected Strategic Metal Reserves Held by South Africa and Russia Table 14 Dependence of Major Industrial Nations on Imports of Selected Metals Figure 1 U.S. per capita annual energy mineral consumption Figure 2 U.S. per capita annual mineral consumption Figure 3 Geography of Persian Gulf region Figure 4 U.S. crude oil reserves 19471994 Figure 5 Graphic history of changes in energy mix in the United States Figure 6 Time of fossil fuel use in perspective of human history from 5000 years past to 5000 years in the future Figure 7 Be fruitful and multiply..Nnow divide Figure 8 Curves of discoveries and production during a complete production cycle of a finite resource Figure 9 World oil supply: discoveries and production