World resources will run out by 2050
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Current trends will not continue in the future because it will become too expensive to keep doing the things we do. Cheaper alternatives will be developed. When there is money to be made, someone will exploit the opportunity. The Africa comment was hilarious. How many people die of disease and starvation in Africa each year? Those people didn't seem to eke out an existance on next to nothing.
Oh, and global warming is a farce.
Ryan
Oh, and global warming is a farce.
Ryan
Now that's a pretty Doom and Gloom report, high on shock value. Is it an election year?
There is no way in hell the world will suddenly "run out" of its resources in 2049. Greater scarcity means higher prices. Higher prices drive alternate solutions. So, as the cost of oil becomes prohibitive we will move to alternatives or discontinue using the old resources altogether.
There is no way in hell the world will suddenly "run out" of its resources in 2049. Greater scarcity means higher prices. Higher prices drive alternate solutions. So, as the cost of oil becomes prohibitive we will move to alternatives or discontinue using the old resources altogether.
Well there you have it! The wealthy portfolio owning environuts who live in modern homes, own computers, and increasingly drive SUV's think the rest of us should all go back to living in dung huts, urinating on ourselves to repel insects and parasites, dying from starvation and communicable disease, like the Africans do...presumably so the environmentalists will not have to.
They are right though, we will run out of resources at some point and then we're f-cked. It is inevitable because I'm not going to live in a dung hut and neither are 5 billion other people.
glenn1
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That means we only have 48 years left, we better party it up before the world goes crapper. So i guess that means the Kyoto Protocol (and the environmental movement in general) are now officially pointless (as if we didn't already realize it unofficially) and we should just as officially say "f*ck it" to recycling, cut down some trees, all buy SUVs, and club some baby seals, eh?
Maybe there is a reason why the US doesn't care.
Maybe the US has developed some kind of secret cheaper alternative fuel sources and the faster we suck up all the natural resources, the faster we can seel our new alternative source to other countries that don't have it.
Maybe.
Maybe the US has developed some kind of secret cheaper alternative fuel sources and the faster we suck up all the natural resources, the faster we can seel our new alternative source to other countries that don't have it.
Maybe.
Like the WWF is a credible source. But there IS a solution to most of these problems: more nuclear power!
Siddhartha
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