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Assuming you’re asking in good faith: 1) Ephemeralization [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization] i
by FredPret 2y ago
Assuming you’re asking in good faith:
1) Ephemeralization [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization] is when we arrange a given set of atoms in increasingly useful ways, letting us get the same thing done with less.
A trivial example is information distribution. Another one is how we turned sand into thinking machines. Myriad more examples exist.
2) We have vastly more resources than people think. Our deepest mines are ~5km. There’s a hell of a lot of planet below that, with increasing % valuable metals. There’s enough room on the planet - you can give everyone on earth a big house with a yard and we’ll all fit into a single Canadian province, or into Texas. We can generate 100% of our power needs with solar, nuclear, and batteries. And as we get richer, there are more and more people with the time and ability to make greener choices.
Our systems are proving to be flexible - look at the price of solar + battery over time; look at the deluge of funding for nuclear research. People are working on bio jet fuel. Other people are working on carbon capture tech and geo-engineering ideas for the worst case scenario.
3). We’re not stuck down here. There’s a whole universe out there. A tiny but growing % of our economy happens off-planet. A private company recently landed on the moon. SpaceX is dramatically lowering launch costs. In a few decades, we’ll be mining materials up there and manufacturing goods in space.