A New Angle on Scrap
As time -goes along, scrap iron and scrap lead, for instance, become distributed amongst nations dif« ferently from how iron or lead ores are distributed. Let me give you an example. New Zealand has practically no silver ores-but there’s lots of silver in New Zealand after a few decades of importsafter silver teapots, coinage, cutlery and so on have been imported. And there’s probably more iron in Japan than there ever was iron ore. Simply because Japan has imported ironware, and steel goods and scrap too. In other words, there is growing up a more equal distribution of industrial opportunity amongst nations. As long as the steel industry was wholly dependent on iron ores the accidents of mineral geography definitely determined the location of the steel industry. But now that is no longer the whole matter, the accidents of mineral geography aren’t any longer of such signifiance as they used to be. All nations have scrap heaps if they haven’t mines, And so man (with his capital and techniques) plays a greater part now in determining industrial location than nature-("The Changing Bases of Society " Discussion between K. B. Cumberland and H. N, Parton, 3YA, June 25.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 108, 18 July 1941, Page 5
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