To understand why humans are driving life to extinction, we must understand how we use and abuse materials. We are destroying materials and creating toxic waste at a level that would have been unimaginable even fifty years ago.
The materials we have on this Earth have accumulated over billions of years. The way these materials are organized and stored has had a major impact on the formation of our environment.
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