Dem langjährigen saudischen Ölminister Scheich Zaki Yamani war dies schon in den 1980er Jahren bewusst. „Die Steinzeit endete nicht“, so warnte er seine Landsleute, „weil den Urmenschen die Steine ausgingen.“
Sheikh Zaki Yamani, the longtime Saudi oil minister, knew this back in the 1980s. “The Stone Age did not end,” he warned his compatriots, “because the cavemen ran out of stone.”