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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Not sure what you mean about allocation...western countries take a massive disproportion of them, so if we "fix" the allocation, expect less. The amount of them overall is absolutely a problem. Have you looked at what it would take to do this whole "green switch" thing? The Earth can't support it. Raising the standard of living globally is also unsupportable at western standards.
What mechanism fixes the resource scarcity issue?
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You mentioned the extreme wealth inequality (ie money) of which there is plenty to go around, it's just stockpiled at Amazon and Disney and Wal Mart and in hedge funds being used to constantly cheat people out of savings.
Global resource allocation, also out of whack. But yes a different animal when you consider the impending environmental cost of billions of people coming out of poverty into middle-class standards of living across the planet.
How much food is produced that is tossed? Our global food supply could certainly be streamlined, but of course would result in sacrifices of taste and preference for the privileged.
How much oil is produced and held in storage, keeping that resource artificially high to the benefit of oil upper management pockets and OPEC country's rulers. You know, everytime something happens that COULD cause a rise in energy prices doesn't mean it HAS TO. Or that those companies can't absorb some of that burden themselves to the tune of not 100's of billions in profits. Maybe just a few less billions for the sake of not run away inflation? A little social responsibility from the most major forces of our planet?
How much energy of sunlight hits the Earth each day (more than our civilization has ever used total). Not being able to harness this is greatest failure of humanity so far IMO. Poor allocation of resource here is technology investment. We can drill down, then sideways, then blast hot steam to crack rock and syphon oil out of solid earth and bring it all the way to the surface, and then turn that substance into everything from plastic bags to consumable food. And we can't catch the sunshine? It's been 100 years of going down the wrong direction. Problem is that energy would eventually be free once tech got good enough to create a self-sustaining energy system. No profit in that.