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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