Ep 104: Are We Running Out Of Resources?
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The Most Transformative Entity in the Universe Is Explanatory Knowledge
Doom sayers predict this or that will run and that will lead to our doom. Resources are not limited in this way, only human knowledge is limited. Should any particular resource begin to run short, our creativity will bring into being the knowledge of how to replace that resource from some other source. One day there will be such a resource created by us because coal will be exhausted. We should keep in mind just how terrible it was in the past so that we can know the present is paradise by comparison.
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