Hypothetical question, what if our resources run out?

[Lord Tony®]

So hypothetically speaking say most of our major resources are getting close to becoming fully depleted by 2020. Now in order to sustain the earth how do we get more resources?

There is what 7 billion people on the planet eating up millions of resources per day.

Space colonizing isn't an option until way over 2030+ and even then we wouldn't be able to mine planet resources at least until about 2050+.

What do we do then? Do we start limiting child birth? Stealing resources from other countries?

You know sometimes we hunt animals to deplete their numbers so they don't eat up all the food and cause themselves to starve, we probably would have to do the same for humans.

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[Maxwell.]

we start recycling whatever we can, people probably would have to die and that'd be fine

[Rally]

Which resources are we talking about? Food/water? Construction materials like steel? Power sources like coal? Oil for vehicles? Or everything in general?

[Lord Tony®]

Anything especially key resources.

People will only care to recycle if it starts becoming a law to recycle.

[dirtymurphy]

Which resources are we talking about? Food/water? Construction materials like steel? Power sources like coal? Oil for vehicles? Or everything in general?

yeah. since the op was pretty vague all i can say is that any countries that still have resources will get invaded by larger powers. i just hope we run out of resources after i die.

[Maxwell.]

Recycling has diminished effects. We can only recycle so much.

what do you even mean by this

lots of metals can be recycled and reused, which are a key resource

[Lord Tony®]

what do you even mean by this

lots of metals can be recycled and reused

But these recycled metals start mixing in with each other and you have less pure metals each time.

[Pastrey Crust]

lol im forgeted

Argentina is a very extensive rural country with untapped oil and coal deposits. Same with clay and wouldn't be surprised if there was silver too since the name is basically "The land of silver".

[Pastrey Crust]

Lots of natural gas deposits as well.

[TableSalt]

...since the name is basically "The land of silver".

HOLY forget HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT

[Space1255]

But these recycled metals start mixing in with each other and you have less pure metals each time.

Then we could start a new recycling program where we only recycle alike metals, and if we're uncertain of a certain metal we can break into a lab and hijack the equipment get it scanned somewhere, or we can do a few tests to see what possible metals it could be, like malleability, shine, texture, hardness, etc.

[Pastrey Crust]

HOLY forget HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT

brother have you no history? The spanish settled in the northern part of what is now Argentina, stole our silver and gold and took it back to Spain. Does "El Rio de La Plata" ring a bell?

[TableSalt]

brother have you no history? The spanish settled in the northern part of what is now Argentina, stole our silver and gold and took it back to Spain. Does "El Rio de La Plata" ring a bell?

no i mean i didn't notice "argentum" and "argentina" were so similar

[Snaked_Snake]

well technically it isn't 7 billion people taking up resources, some people get none what-so-ever, just saying.

[Cappytaino]

the problem with the world is that developing countries are the ones growing fastest. These countries will eventually hit their peak capacity and wont be able to grow any more. They may be low on resources, but countries with proper birth rates will be fine. Easier to feed a family of 4 than 12