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Author Topic: Hypothetical question, what if our resources run out?  (Read 3550 times)

How did you get in the airplane then jackass do you loving levitate
Yes, I bet you didn't know I was A WIZARD

put our brains into robots




At least I can levitate, bitch 1v1
Thats the wind blowing your 12 lbs ass around


Thats the wind blowing your 12 lbs ass around
At least the wind can carry me


guys guys

stop fighting
Fiinnee

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.
If you look historically at population growth rates versus state of development, what usually happens is that people just voluntarily stop reproducing as much.  Running out of resources and having mass-starvation is much less common.

When you have an undeveloped nation, the birth and death rates are both extremely high, especially for infants. Along comes industrialization and the death rate drops dramatically, while the birth rates stays the same. It takes many decades before medicine advances even further and women have access to contraceptives (and employment opportunities, which reduces the likelihood that they'll have children). At that point, the birth rate drops to match the lower death rate, and you end up with a country like Japan where population growth is essentially non-existent.

This is expected to happen for every country on Earth as long as they industrialize. We'll hit a maximum world population of 15-20 billion and then it'll stabilize.

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

Technocracy + extra benefits for those who choose not to have children


put our brains into robots
Agreed.

Energy may be a problem though.

But these recycled metals start mixing in with each other and you have less pure metals each time.
Uh, most of our metal can be reused and recycled.
If you have steel you're never going to bother separating the Iron from the other components of the alloy. You'd just reuse the steel.

Metals don't mix together to form alloys of their own accord. If you're ever separating metals you're literally pulling a clump of steel from a bucket of other metals. The steel is as pure as when you made it.
We don't bother extracting metals from alloys because the alloy is always more useful. Hence the fact we created it.

what if i steel all the metals though