I'm always extremely sceptical about predictions more than a few years into the future.
When, for instance, are we going to run out of the raw materials used to produce absolutely everything that Western society is totally dependent on, thus bringing everything we know crashing down into one enormous, chaotic failure pile? I'm just hoping it's after 2040 so that I'm as sure as I'll ever be that I'm dead when it happens.
Hmm, good point - I've never thought about what happens when we deplete Earth of everything it has to offer. As for 2040, I'm hoping to be kicking around this place still (life, not LiveJournal) as I'd only be 62...although depending on healthcare of the future, I may not want to live that long :-/
It's not that Earth will be completely depleted of resources, though, it's just that they won't be accessible. Tungsten, for instance; the world's supply will one day all be scattered all over the world's landfill sites, in tiny, micrometre-thick filaments, rather than as accessible ore in a tungsten mine. In fact, pessimistic estimates said the entire supply was supposed to have run out already.
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When, for instance, are we going to run out of the raw materials used to produce absolutely everything that Western society is totally dependent on, thus bringing everything we know crashing down into one enormous, chaotic failure pile? I'm just hoping it's after 2040 so that I'm as sure as I'll ever be that I'm dead when it happens.
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