.. then the world's oil supply would be used up in 4 years.
At least, according to Gerard O'Neill in his 1976 book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space"
Was/Is this fact? DOes this mean that it'd be terrible for the global economy if every country stopped being impoverished?
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