Tue, Apr-29-08, 00:29
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Senior Member
Posts: 224
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Plan: Atkins/PP/IF
Stats: 185/165/150
BF:
Progress: 57%
Location: Ottawa
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Originally Posted by Legeon
Wouldn't finite resources, used more efficiently, get depleted as quickly as before since more and more people would be using them? After all, the entire species wants a taste of first world living.
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I would say so, but what you mean by finite resources might be pessimistic. Like I said, with technology advancement we're constantly discovering new sources of energy as well as better ways to use those we're already using.
400 years ago wood was basically the only imaginable source of heat and horses the only means of ground transportation, and humanity's development was restrained by this lack of good alternatives.
We still have forests and horses around AFAIK. 400 years from now we'll probably be on the verge of running out of our main source of energy, futurium©, alarmists will be warning leaders to take drastic measures to curb our unsustainable consumption, and we'll be wondering whether we're gonna have to go back to using oil (of which there is plenty left) like our poor primitive ancestors did.
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