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Originally Posted by icecube
There wasn't much to argue with in that feature from my perspective. Some may call it fear mongering, but it is reaching the point where it's time to be scared. Natural resources arent unlimited and they are being consumed at unsustainable rates. Period.
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I don't think anyone is in the wrong for suggesting that we can't continue to produce and consume what we consume forever using current production and retail practices. However we don't live in a bubble where extrapolations can be made without adjusting for changes in the fundamentals in why we buy so many things that get thrown away. The answer to that question is simply because we can. Long before we 'run out' of many of the implements, these things will simply cost so much that either A) The average person can't afford to purchase them and thus consumptionn decreases sharply or B) More sustainable alternatives emerge or C) An extreme disincentive to have more children in the form of these costs lowers birthrates around the globe and thus these issues become less of a problem or D) A combination of all of the above.
A good case can be argued that many of these things have been happening all along, evidenced by low birthrates in the first world (And even falling birthrates in the third world), Increasing prices for recycled Aluminum, Better water conditions in the Great Lakes, high gasoline prices, higher food prices, etc. The last thing I want to see is the means of production being seized by various World governments in an overblown reaction to this alarmism.