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What would get depleted?
by thinkloop 9y ago
What would get depleted?
- dredmorbius 9y agoCore strategic resources. A set of 14: http://i.imgur.com/L5qWNN9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/L5qWNN9.jpg Rainforests, coral reefs, ag land, coal, oil, gas, aluminium, phosphorus, tantalum, titanium, copper, silver, indium, antimony. Sources: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-stock-check http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-st... http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/BBCF_infoData_stock_check.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/BBCF_infoData_stock_chec... A list of six: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/oct/31/six-natural-resources-population https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/oct/31/six... Longer general discussion: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G01035.pdf http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G01035.pdf
- stevenwoo 9y agoWe've actually driven Atlantic cod near the US/Canada close to extinction by overfishing recently in the 90's and had to curtail fishing for a long time to allow it to come back. Japanese freshwater eels are endangered from the popularity in sushi and put on a conservation list just four years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/unagi-endangered-eel-japan/423675/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/unagi-en... Chart of most popular fish stocks, what happens when popular fish get overfished: https://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-chilean-sea-bass/ https://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-chilean-sea-ba...