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The Decade Of Commodities Is Just Around The Corner

this chart is interesting and relates to the theme of this post.

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**A History of Resource Extraction & Acceleration**

> According to figures published in the UNEP’s Global Material Flows Database, extraction of four main material groups - biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metallic minerals - has skyrocketed in the past 50 years. Where a total of 31.1 billion tonnes of these combined materials was extracted from the Earth in 1970, when the UNEP’s records began, that figure is estimated to hit 107 billion tonnes this year.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/42810)
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> **[🔗 statista.com](https://www.statista.com/chart/32750/global-extraction-of-the-four-main-material-groups/)**