Because of technological limits there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture we could have much higher production.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty polluting energy-intensive business.
You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.