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Resources are potentially infinite and that's ignoring that we are consuming a non-perceptible amount in the visible universe. We are a long way from consuming

• piva00 1y ago
  They're only potentially infinite if we figure out ways to expend an ever-increasing exponential amount of energy to capture them. Energy is cost, there's absolutely no way to know if we will figure a way to produce the energy required to extract resources from outside our planet, even less to know if we won't expend the most easily accessible resources before we can start digging for more outside of Earth. We should be treating our accessible resources as finite, and improve the efficiency of using them, just to make sure we can keep enough until all the breakthroughs we need to explore resources outside of Earth exist. It's like the propaganda from the oil industry, talking about how plastics are so damn important for modern life and we couldn't live without the oil industry. It's absolutely true, but it also gives a very clear argument on why we shouldn't be wasting fossil resources to be burnt for energy if we can find other ways to access energy, we should be keeping as much as possible of this finite resource (which very likely doesn't even exist in any close proximity to Earth) for its more useful material products like plastics.