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>>21591983
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>>21592056
First, AI won't destroy humanity because that Skynet shit is unlikely as much as the so called Paperclip Maximizer.

The peak oil anon is partially right, but it's not only peak oil, fertilizer scarcity is more likely since we are getting near a point that the fertilizing industry is not picking up with the food industry. It's important to notice that, if we run out of fertilizers, we go back to the standards prior to the green revolution and we won't be able to feed 8 billion people. Energy crisis are not exclusive of industrial societies as I pointed out in >>21584198, any complex civilization will end up depending on a number of resources that will go scares, and if we can learn something with Rome and other civilizations is that it usually takes 50 years from a powerful society to go from its zenith to the rock bottom, and energy has to do with it, since prosperous time might cause overconsumption and lack of preoccupation with the reserves of each resource.
In any case, I recommend you guys to research on pic related, since it gives a lot of insights. As I've written in another thread, even if Peak Oil doesn't materialize, we might reach peak pollution, a much more dangerous fate...
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Currently, resources such as oil, gas, fertilizers, certain metals used in batteries etc. are being use without much consideration for their availability. It often happens that we still have plentiful of these materials, but they often happen to be within borders of governments that know very well the value of these products as they are not willing to sell it away for a dime (Russia is the prime example of it). So, it's likely that we will have more wars over resources.
With this said, I can affirm. Things will get a lot worse before they improve.