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How could a person who is concerned about the depletion of natural resources object to the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith?
In The Unfoldment Of World Civilization (1936), Shoghi Effendi described his vision of the future. He has a particularly consumption-intensive attitude toward natural resources:
A world metropolis will act as the nerve center of a world civilization, the focus towards which the unifying forces of life will converge and from which its energizing influences will radiate.
... raw materials will be tapped and fully utilized ...
The enormous energy dissipated and wasted on war, whether economic or political, will be consecrated ... to the exploitation of the unused and unsuspected resources of the planet, ...
A world federal system, ruling the whole earth and exercising unchallengeable authority over its unimaginably vast resources, ... and bent on the exploitation of all the available sources of energy on the surface of the planet, ...
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