Earth is not running out of resources

By Roko @ 2023-04-03T10:53 (+5)

This is a linkpost to https://hereticalupdate.substack.com/p/is-earth-running-out-of-resources

Are we using up earth's finite resources too quickly? I argue the negative case here. 


Teddy_ @ 2023-04-04T16:49 (+2)

We are running out of Helium.

Roko @ 2023-04-05T12:26 (+2)

There's lots of helium in the solar system. You could harvest the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn for it. Obviously this has an energy cost, but s stated in the article energy is the only real resource that we use up. Everything else is renewable. 

Closed Limelike Curves @ 2023-04-04T16:55 (+1)

In what sense? The problem of potential helium scarcity has been (effectively) solved in the last few years by just looking for more helium deposits.

In a sense, we are "running out" (because there's only a finite supply of Helium), we're just running out very, very slowly.