Prescient Belloc

Hillaire Belloc concluded a 1927 debate with George Bernard Shaw with this:

Our civilization

Is built upon coal,

Let us chant in rotation

Our civilization

That lump of damnation

Without any soul

Our civilization

Is built upon coal.

In a very few years

It will float upon oil.

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