/sci/ - Science & Math

oh vey, this will be fine in 15 years from now.

It's not like we're running out of resources.

>>8622532
>Like if one of the necessary computer components were rarer

That's already beginning to happen right now.

>>8572095
Considering the more and more nations are adopting consumers lifestyles due to a growing middle class in the Third World, I feel like I'm going to witness a Tragedy of the Commons firsthand.

I might as well make the most of my life. You only get to see the end of the world once.

>>8497380
Basically yes, all of that.

>science can even solve this

>>7303476
The problem with this question is that you can almost always go to lower quality sources at the expense of more energy to process them.

In the 1800s we were essentially extracting pure copper. Now were down to using ores with a yield less than 2%.

The lower the % content, the larger the total resource. Eventually you get tot he point where the most economical option is extraction from sea water.

So we will never run out of a particular resource, it will just become to expensive for the extraction to be worth it.