Economics about to change by 2030.

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Uh I was referring to your posts here in the thread as being fragmented, not the article.

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Humbug, bah humbug, and much humbuggery! We would have needed 2 earths in 9,053 BC if we hadn’t invented agriculture. Our technological innovation could easily allow our population to keep growing. We just need to pave over more stuff. Keep in mind, plants are just dandy for converting light into biological energy, but they are hardly as efficient as we could be to serve just our own needs. See, any biological organism needs to worry about self-repair, immunity, so on and so forch and suchly and thus, and for its needs, it uses the most general-purpose elements possible (carbon, etc.). Technology need not obey such constraints, it can be much more tailored and focused. It is corporatist regulation and monopoly which constrains technological innovation. Free us from the chains or state and we’ll have this little glob of mud paved and ready for upgrades in no time. Yee-hah!

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FTA:

Humans have all the tools needed to ease pressure on resources by taking advantage of technological advances, Leape said. The two-thirds of the U.S. footprint that comes from oil, gas and coal usage can be cut with available equipment, he said.

And thats exactly what will happen, as natural energy resources become more scarce and “alternative energy” becomes more cost effective, people will adopt the alternatives. Of course governments will interfere in a number of ways, possibly including war. The global market is not a shrinking pie, or even a static pie. We can increase the quality of life for all humans while still dealing with a reduction of resources like oil.

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Possibly. But I do not foresee that inflection point for 2030, instead I see it for much later. And a lot of trouble can happen in between. We are nowhere near substituting oil efficiently as we once thought we would.

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But there’s currently no need to. And technology progresses faster than you think…

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Considering the possibility of resource scarcity and worldwide population growth over clouding improvements in technology and trade…………… very sad to see wars being waged over just water.

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the mature opinion might be that its sad that wars are waged over anything.

i myself am yet to declare war on anyone over water, it seems to come out of the tap in exchange for me paying my water bill well enough.