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1 * The word ‘resources’ comes from the Latin surgere (to rise up, to spring from) and the related word resurgere (to rise up again). With the prefix ‘re’, this word optimistically implies that all ‘resources’ are renewable, but this is not the case. The term ‘commodities’ is generally used to include both natural resources and processed goods, but this implies a wholesale product on a mass scale. ‘Raw materials’ gives a more accurate definition of everything that man extracts from the surface or the bowels of the earth.

2 * This idea, with reference to The King’s Two Bodies by Ernst Kantorowicz, was first formulated by Fernando Coronil in his study of Venezuela, where oil becomes the state’s ‘second body’ (Coronil, The Magical State).