/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11417076
If no inevitable extintion event happens, like those that you describe, then humanity can go on forever on this planet given that there is no autoritharian government to stop the actions of the individuals.

Right now there are a lot of non-scarce goods(like air and sea water), that are the most sensitive in the really long term (many generations down the line so the actual generation, no matter how low is it's time preference, cannot plan ahead). So, even if something happens to the air, water and every non-scarce good, they will become scarce goods (like everything that you buy in the supermarket), thus they start to be affected by the laws of the free market (this is, the voluntary relationships made by people on how to deal with scarce goods).

If the market is unhampered, it assures that the good never runs out, never. If there are no substitutes to a good (like oxigen), and it is scarce, then those who sell it will raise the price, and those who buy it will be willing to pay for it (right now, as air is a non-scarce good, nobody would pay a "monthly fee" for breathing, it is just retarded). High prices on scarce goods ensure a high margin of profit. In the free market, retardedly high margins of profit lure enterpreneurs into entering the market as suppliers of the good, thus incresing the supply of the good and therefore reducing the prices of such good.

For example, if air becomes scarce, this will make it profitable to just "create" air, by some future tech chemistry, and then sell it like business sell clean water in bottles now, and pure oxigen. Also, if there is no autoritharian government to stop individuals from taking action, there is no chance that a company like this would be a monopoly and charge ridiculous high prices for long, as, again, the high prices would lure other companies to enter the market and compete for the money of the consumers.