Most of these advances rely on (actual and quasi-) resources we're doing our best to exhaust before some future generation gets to have a share. "Peak oil" and

Most of these advances rely on (actual and quasi-) resources we're doing our best to exhaust before some future generation gets to have a share. "Peak oil" and CO2 are just the tip of the iceberg. Some future generation is going to dig up the garbage we buried and harvest it for resources. To a degree we're already doing this ourselves looking for stuff like palladium and rhodium.