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I find it hard to believe we would reach 50 billion people within the next millennium without new and incredible resource extraction technologies that would mak
by pizza 7y ago
I find it hard to believe we would reach 50 billion people within the next millennium without new and incredible resource extraction technologies that would make current food shortage problems look like a piece of cake.
- johnisgood 7y agoResource extraction... sure, but I think the issue is more that there will be no resources left to extract at some point. We are already wasting a lot of things, even something as basic as water.
- antepodius 7y agoWhat water? None of it leaves the planet. If you want enough clean water, build a nuclear reactor and hook it up to desalination plants.
- johnisgood 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity We do waste water, but this is besides the point. The point is that you could have the best resource extraction technologies, but if there are no resources left to extract due to depletion, then you are pretty much borked.