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But we're not actually running out of those resources though. They just end up in forms that are much more difficult to utilize (they cost more), but the elemen
by Mirioron 7y ago
But we're not actually running out of those resources though. They just end up in forms that are much more difficult to utilize (they cost more), but the elements are still there. With enough energy and need it can just be reused. We're just nowhere near the point of that being necessary.
- _jal 7y agoCan you point me to the rainforest and coral reef mines? More seriously, > They just end up in forms that are much more difficult to utilize Right. And as the costs of, say, energy rise, people use less of it. Which means less mobility, less heating or cooling, less plastic, quite possibly less medical care. Which means a drastic lifestyle change for the nonrich advanced-economy participants, no joining them for most everyone in less advanced economies, and more authoritarianism, war and civil unrest for everyone while the, um, "adjustments" settle in. But things are fine, sure.