Our planet's resources will be gone in 44 years.

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BlancoNino

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061024/ts_nm/environment_wwf_planet_dc

"BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday."

Well, by the time I'm 65 years old we'll be all out of resources. I've decided not to even save for retirement since the planet will be gone. Goodbye Earth...and goodbye mankind. We had a good run...

Edit: If this is a repost sorry I looked up "planet" and "resource(s)" and found nothing.
 
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DaWhim

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I will believe it when I start seeing prices on raw material are rising. otherwise, it is just bullsh!t.
 
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yhelothar

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Current trends is always BS. That's like someone saying in 1980 that all our cars would be inefficient gas guzzlers.
In less than 50 years, we'd easily have a much more efficient and clean fuel source.
That, and there's pretty much infinite energy from the sun.
 
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thedarkwolf

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Damn I was hoping it would be sooner. I'll be too old by then to roam the roads in a post apocalyptic world searching for petrol while sporting a mohawk and leather pants.
 
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getbush

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the never ending supply of idiocy is what keeps it so cheap

and to be clear the it that is cheap is idiocy itself
 
Rubycon

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They must be using Windows Explorer to calculate this.

So 44 years from now they'll say we have 80 years. But a year after 44 (from now) it will say 10 minutes. :laugh:
 
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So

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Explain to me how we'll be "OUT" of resources when the sun will still be pouring in energy and we'll still have conservation of mass. Our resources aren't going anywhere. OH NO! WE'LL HAVE TO MINE LANDFILLS! HOW GROSS!

:roll:

We'll be running low on oil, and that's bout it.
 
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BlancoNino

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Originally posted by: So
Explain to me how we'll be "OUT" of resources when the sun will still be pouring in energy and we'll still have conservation of mass. Our resources aren't going anywhere. OH NO! WE'LL HAVE TO MINE LANDFILLS! HOW GROSS!

:roll:

We'll be running low on oil, and that's bout it.
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That may not be true either. :)

It's just a retarded bias. We have a surplus of food...plenty of fuel...landfills are becomming way more efficient. I swear environmentalists are running thin on stuff to complain about.
 
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So

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: So
Explain to me how we'll be "OUT" of resources when the sun will still be pouring in energy and we'll still have conservation of mass. Our resources aren't going anywhere. OH NO! WE'LL HAVE TO MINE LANDFILLS! HOW GROSS!

:roll:

We'll be running low on oil, and that's bout it.
Click to expand...

That may not be true either. :)

It's just a retarded bias. We have a surplus of food...plenty of fuel...landfills are becomming way more efficient. I swear environmentalists are running thin on stuff to complain about.
Click to expand...

I generally consider myself an anti-environmentalist (I have no problem with regulation to keep people's air / water / land clean but I don't take the environment as an end in of itself) but even I buy the "we'll eventually run out of oil" tack...I just know that it's not going to be a very big deal. Especially if The U.S., China, India and Japan stay on good terms, there won't be any major resource wars, only minor brushfires.
 
sandorski

sandorski

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Hold on a minute. What they are saying is that if everyone on the planet had the lifestyles that exist in the First World(more or less), then the Resources would run out and/or require X Planets to maintain. I assume this is using current Known Resources, Current Demand/Discovery data, and curent Consumption Levels. Many of the assumed Consumption Data could very well change and so could the Supply/Known Resources. Their findings should cause concern and even action, but at the same time things are likely to change in the meantime avoiding any disaster within that time period.

Put another way, Africa, Central/South America, and other Third World regions will likely continue to be far behind the First World. Without drastic changes to Consumption Levels(both in amounts and in what is consumed) there will always be a very large part of the Human Population living in Poverty and very small part living in Luxury. Eventually this chasm is going to cause serious Social/Political Issues that will become a threat to everyone..
 
Chaotic42

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So what you're saying is that the WWF knows exactly how much of each resource we have in and on the entire planet? That's awesome.

How much mercury is in the entire earth's crust?
 
Queasy

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: So
Explain to me how we'll be "OUT" of resources when the sun will still be pouring in energy and we'll still have conservation of mass. Our resources aren't going anywhere. OH NO! WE'LL HAVE TO MINE LANDFILLS! HOW GROSS!

:roll:

We'll be running low on oil, and that's bout it.
Click to expand...

That may not be true either. :)

It's just a retarded bias. We have a surplus of food...plenty of fuel...landfills are becomming way more efficient. I swear environmentalists are running thin on stuff to complain about.
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Wasn't there an article the other day where geologists stated the earth has way more oil than we think?

Anyways...WWF...heh

"WHATCHU GONNA DO WHEN THE COMMIE ENVIROS COME AFTER YOU!"
 
JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: DaWhim
I will believe it when I start seeing prices on raw material are rising. otherwise, it is just bullsh!t.
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Seen the price of metal lately? Or lumber?
 
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thehstrybean

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Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Current trends is always BS. That's like someone saying in 1980 that all our cars would be inefficient gas guzzlers.
In less than 50 years, we'd easily have a much more efficient and clean fuel source.
That, and there's pretty much infinite energy from the sun.
Click to expand...

Then the machines take over...THE MATRIX!!! OH NOES!!
 
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