Ep 104: Are We Running Out Of Resources?
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Are We Running Out of Resources?
We can make all the earth rather like the best parts of new york, paris or sydney. And then we will turn our galaxy into a civilization using that matter as our resource. We coon ourselves in civilization and protect ourselves from the hostile environment by constantly bringing into existence resources we create. It is not the planet or even the universe that gives us the resources. It is us who create the knowledge. In 19 72, a book, the limit to growth, was publisheds the best computer stimulations of the time. Its authors predicted petroleum reserves would all have been utterly consumed by 19 92. Their predictions also forecast running out of alumeniun gold, silver,
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