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This comes up again and again. No we want. Humans don't run out of non-renewable resources, the price just goes up. At worse we stop using if for party ballons.
by nickik 7y ago
This comes up again and again. No we want. Humans don't run out of non-renewable resources, the price just goes up. At worse we stop using if for party ballons.
Humans actually are far better at using up renewable resources, like whales.
- nickik 7y agoThose people who downvote should come up with an example that contradicts my statment.
- wnkrshm 7y agoHumanity has hunted all kinds of megafauna (wooly mammoth and co.) to extinction. Also the ongoing mass extinction [0]. The problem is that what is useful to us in second or farther removed degree, we don't value much. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y agoYou supported his statement. Megafauna are a renewable resource. GP is saying that we run through renewable resources much easier than we do non-renewable.
- kilo_bravo_3 7y ago>Humans don't run out of non-renewable resources, the price just goes up. How much for a live passenger pigeon?
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