We Will Never Run Out of Resources
wsj.com
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Between the two authors, one is a spokesman for a free-market thinktank, the other is a pop scientist known for writing books on the debunked parallel universe theories.
This kind of "oh we'll figure it out" kind of attitude is why every major nation's plan for climate change includes the imaginary technology of carbon capture.
We have about 20% of mineral reserves required for a full green energy conversion.[1] These type of think tank grifters(I'm sorry I cannot think of a better term for these people) have a single goal, to throw us all over the cliff of climate change while enabling their patrons to extract as much value from us on the way down.
Due to this prevailing "we'll figure it out" opinion, every major country in the world has increased their carbon emissions, continues to destroy environments, and overall has done very little to counter pollution, emissions, and fossil fuel usage as a whole. Oh you're going to mine at the bottom of the ocean? Sure, that sounds about as likely as Musk actually sending himself to Mars.
But here's the thing, we didn't figure it out! The polar vortex jet stream has been interrupted, we've broken an extremely important meteorological system due to the endless search for growth, and these people want us to do more growing! more profit! At what cost? We still pretend like carbon capture will save us, that telling the average joe to recycle will save us, that driving a Tesla will somehow make a difference, despite still constructing our lives around driving cars.
We can't keep pretending like pure consumption is a good thing, or that the free market will save us. The free market is inherently reactionary, it doesn't plan for the future, it doesn't care where you'll be 10 years from now, it's a silly little state machine where numbers go in, and hopefully bigger numbers come out without regard for peripheral side effects.
God I'm so tired of these ghouls.
[1] https://youtu.be/MBVmnKuBocc?t=2605 [] https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...
Contemporary geopolitics makes a lot more sense when you realize that we're fighting about which groups dies from climate change, not IF some are going to.
The major threat as outlined by the UN is "de-complexification" (IE, society collapse) as a result of mass climate migration and conflict over limited/reduced resources.
There are no realistic pathways to prevent this situation now. It is already kicking off and will be fully underway within 20 short years.
The worst case scenario is we stretch ourselves too thin trying to manage everyone that we don't have enough excess to embark on emergency geo-engineering projects.
There was a disgraced Finnish MP who let the mask slip and suggested that the richer nations conduct a "Climate Abortion" on equatorial populations to prevent this scenario. Ghoulish, but understandable in the face of existential threat.
Personally I'm foolishly hoping fusion becomes viable and changes some of the structural calculations underlying the projections. The difference it would make in desalination alone would go a long way.
One thing that I like to keep in the back of my head as a fun, unrealistic comfort is Alien stuff. IE some of the "whistleblowers" that have written how there's aliens under the sea, in what appears to boil down to organic automata, purpose built for the task, piloting vehicles that are built and broken down purpose built for a task, with a power source that seems near infinite.
The description of them as zoo keepers, "abducting" people in areas where disease or bad health is rampant as some kind of "population check". It's oddly comforting because if they wanted to destroy humanity, they could, and one must ask why they haven't yet and why they would be simply watching.
Hell maybe they'll save us all but in the mean time, I need to figure out how to grow potatoes, squash, and greens.