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The regenerative cycles of nature do not produce excess or waste, the networks of living beings keep the material in perpetual circulation. Coal, which is the basis of life on earth, one of its protagonists, is in constant transformation: by coinciding with other elements it migrates between living and non-living, solid, liquid and gas states.
The energy surplus of coal, oil, and natural gas has made it possible for the lifestyles of modern technological societies to evolve based upon the ideologies prevalent in the last century: endless acceleration, development and accumulation. These societies have begun to extract the energy and material resources accumulated in the ecosystem at tremendous concentration and speed. Earth has huge reserves of fossil fuels, human species have less to fear about the depletion of reservoires than the loss of their own living conditions as a result of burning those fossil fuels.
