We consume, replace renewable resources as we can, and move on to alternatives when non-renewables become unavailable. This is how it has worked since we began walking upright and picking our snouts. It's not good or bad, it just is.
if the middle east ran out of oil, the arabs would be in a sorry situation. they don't make much in the way of products for export, they don't grow much food. so they'd just all starve
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Good luck powering your car with nukes
Wonder how many Americans would be prepared to drive electric cars, which do not have roaring engines and stuff. You'll stop next to another car at a traffic light, let your engine buzz a bit louder a few times, and then impress him by accelerating from 0 to 60 in 45 seconds!
meh, you got it wrong. It'll accelerate from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds, but it'll run out of juice two miles later.
Originally posted by: Daxxax
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.
I agree with you completely. I have seen studies and books that totally contradict what these wackos are sprewing. These are the same people that believe the world will soon become overcrowded. Personally I think earth can sustain a population of at least 500 billion people, right now we are at about 6 billion.
Keep this in mind every single person on earth could all fit in the state of Texas with enough room to hold there hands out and not touch another person. Kinda puts things in perspective dosen't it.
500 billion??? 500 BILLION???? Whether or not the Earth can fit more people there's enough people as it is? 500 BILLION??? Maybe if every single city in the world looks like New York City from the 5th Element with like one million people per skyscraper! And how exactly will all those people get around? They won't on surface transport, so there'll have to be skycars by then. How will you fuel billions of skycars? lmao... the more people the less resources per person. I think world population should be stabilized and instead the quality of life should expand exponentially, much better that way.
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You know, you consistantly say some of the stupidest sh!t on this forum, but this takes the cake. You type this tripe while using a computer that you do not need, and living the same exact lifestyle as the rest of US.
Not only that, but you claim wind and solar power could fill our needs if only we didn't have any needs.
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500 billion??? 500 BILLION???? Whether or not the Earth can fit more people there's enough people as it is? 500 BILLION??? Maybe if every single city in the world looks like New York City from the 5th Element with like one million people per skyscraper! And how exactly will all those people get around? They won't on surface transport, so there'll have to be skycars by then. How will you fuel billions of skycars? lmao... the more people the less resources per person. I think world population should be stabilized and instead the quality of life should expand exponentially, much better that way.
Sorry I disagree, I truly believe that there is virtually no limit to the amount of people the earth can sustain. As long as things are done the right way, better irrigation, transportation, buildings, harvesting the Ocean for its huge amount of resources. There are so many things we haven't even begun to touch on. I'm not talking about the next few hunrded years this may be thousand years from now maybe even more but in my mind the people who think we are reaching the limit to human population are the same people who once believed the world was flat. They are not thinking out of the box.
500 billion??? 500 BILLION???? Whether or not the Earth can fit more people there's enough people as it is? 500 BILLION??? Maybe if every single city in the world looks like New York City from the 5th Element with like one million people per skyscraper! And how exactly will all those people get around? They won't on surface transport, so there'll have to be skycars by then. How will you fuel billions of skycars? lmao... the more people the less resources per person. I think world population should be stabilized and instead the quality of life should expand exponentially, much better that way.
Sorry I disagree, I truly believe that there is virtually no limit to the amount of people the earth can sustain. As long as things are done the right way, better irrigation, transportation, buildings, harvesting the Ocean for its huge amount of resources. There are so many things we haven't even begun to touch on. I'm not talking about the next few hunrded years this may be thousand years from now maybe even more but in my mind the people who think we are reaching the limit to human population are the same people who once believed the world was flat. They are not thinking out of the box.
You know, you consistantly say some of the stupidest sh!t on this forum, but this takes the cake. You type this tripe while using a computer that you do not need, and living the same exact lifestyle as the rest of US.
I presume that means I consistantly strike the deepest nerves.
Tell me, is a heroin junkie qualified to say that heroin is bad? I am a hypocrite...so what, does that change anything?
Unprofitable, yes, that's the key reason. Man won't see that there's more to life than profit until it's too late.
I presume that means I consistantly strike the deepest nerves.
Tell me, is a heroin junkie qualified to say that heroin is bad? I am a hypocrite...so what, does that change anything?
Unprofitable, yes, that's the key reason. Man won't see that there's more to life than profit until it's too late.
wouldn't there always be wind blowing somewhere in the globe?
why isn't that considered as a natural resource?
why isn't that considered as a natural resource?
You still didn't address how these people are going to live and how they're going to get around, etc. Sorry, but I do NOT want to live in a world with 10 billion people, let alone 500.
So throwing the baby out with the bath water is justified?
I lack credibility....so what, anyone who doesn't believe we're on a fast track to self-destruction has no credibility either, because they're just trying to rationalize their lifestyles so that they won't have to make any changes.
I lack credibility....so what, anyone who doesn't believe we're on a fast track to self-destruction has no credibility either, because they're just trying to rationalize their lifestyles so that they won't have to make any changes.
EngineNr9, now you're just mumbling and not making any sense.
Yes, if you're a hypocrite you lack credibility and ought to take a long look in the mirror before opening your mouth again.
I don't understand what babies and bath water have to do with global resources.
No, we're not on a fast track to self destruction. As has been said that's simply an alarmist phrase using solely for political purposes.
As for making lifestyle changes, why don't you go first? You can set an example for the rest of us.
Yes, if you're a hypocrite you lack credibility and ought to take a long look in the mirror before opening your mouth again.
I don't understand what babies and bath water have to do with global resources.
No, we're not on a fast track to self destruction. As has been said that's simply an alarmist phrase using solely for political purposes.
As for making lifestyle changes, why don't you go first? You can set an example for the rest of us.
My point is that if we run out of say metal we could always mine asteroids or if we run out of space to plant food on Earth we could always plant food on Mars. We're never going to run out of all of our energy sources...well in another 5 billion years maybe. We'll always have things like solar power, uranium, heavy hydrogen/light helium, hydrogen for fuel cells, etc.
Why? There is more methane buried in the oceans and just the known reserves outshadow known reserves for oil. We have yet begun to exploit!
Why? There is more methane buried in the oceans and just the known reserves outshadow known reserves for oil. We have yet begun to exploit!
Why? Because I want to that's why. I figure that's as good a reason as any.
Yeah, the Earth has a buttload of methane. If a lot of that got released into the atmosphere by an underwater landslide or something, which could happen, it would basically be hell on Earth. So next time one of you greenies (not you Tominator
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