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To your point, there were many wars with gold/oil being the main motive. However, I hardly can remember any wars where coal resources was the main motive. Bot
by jakozaur 11y ago
To your point, there were many wars with gold/oil being the main motive.
However, I hardly can remember any wars where coal resources was the main motive.
Both are fossil fuels, but one is more precious than the other.
- bcook 11y agoI am very likely biased by my love of the sci-fi (dystopia) genre... :) Regardless, if there is something of worth, people will kill to have it.
- throwaway049 11y agoI think the threat to coal supplies from Poland was a significant factor (but not main motive) in Britain declaring war with Germany in 1939, but I can't find a reference to back this up.
- daemin 11y agoWell the Silesian region was a major (coal) mining centre in Poland, both before and after the war.
- arethuza 11y agoI've never heard that mentioned as a factor in the events leading up to WW2 and this graph suggests that the UK didn't even start importing coal in any quantities until the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:UK_Coal_Production.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_King...