World resources
October 26, 2006
agrobick1
I found an article a couple days ago and it said that if we consume earth’s resources at the rate we are going, they will be gone by 2050. I know that seems far away but we will only be 60 or so years old. That is terrible. The population of mammals and fish have gone down 30% because of global warming and everything. I will tag the article and attach it to here.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061024/ts_nm/environment_wwf_planet_dc
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sehauser | October 26, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Interesting article, now if only people would take it seriously. I have a feeling that until the problem comes knocking on our door (about another 40 years) little will be done about this problem. In addition it is probably only going to be sped up by developing countries who do not have laws and regulations set up to control pollution. There is one globalization can be stopped…nobody is going to be around to continue it!
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Steve Greenlaw | October 26, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Also, it depends on which resources you’re looking at. I understand we have coal to last 150 years.
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Martha | October 30, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I saw an amazing presentation by Ray Kurzweil at a conference a few weeks ago that your post reminds me of. Kurzweil is a futurist and one of the arguments that he makes is that these kinds of trends are always affected by the emergence of future technolgies. So, one response I would have to this kind of argument, is how will new (or future) technologies empower us to make better and more efficient use of those resources?
I definitely believe that we need to take a long, hard look at our use of natural resources and become more responsible in our usage.
That said, I think we should also expect technologies to improve so that our efficiences grow as well (at the same time, that we can probably also expect developing countries to be slower to adopt new, more efficient technologies–as the previous poster mentions).
Also, I have to say that as the mother of an 18 month old, 2050 doesn’t seem very far away at all. Having children really changes your perspective on these issues. . .
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fleas7 | December 3, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Thanks for posting this and the link on your page. It is certainly grim reading of course yet in many ways we have sadly known and suspected as much for years.
Best wishes and good luck at collage and don’t forget to have some fun.