Timber might be another case, c.f the switch to coal in metalurgy as
available wood ran out. Recently heard on Radio 4 that the UK has the
lowest amount of woodland in the EU, which one assumes might in part be
due to the industrial revolution. Certainly industrial areas of south
wales had extensive areas of ancient woodland in say the 16th/17th
centuries that now only exist as tiny fragments.
P G-B
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