Finite Resources

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 They say all resources on earth are limited.  They've been saying we will run out of oil in the next 10 years for decades.  We're gonna run out of oil.  Coal.  Water.  Lithium.  Cobalt.  Silicon.  Gold.  Silver.  Titanium.  Copper.

I think they're wrong.  Peak oil hasn't happened yet.  None of the other stuff has peaked either.

When me and my wife got married we would vacation in Arkansas at Table Rock Lake with her grand parents.  They would take out the pontoon boat and we'd drop the anchor in some cove and swim.  We'd wear the life jackets like underwear putting our legs through the arm holes and buckling up so you kinda sat in the water.  It was always very relaxing.  We'd swim for a while and take up anchor and go somewhere else are head back to the marina.

When you bobbing in the water you could sometimes feel a warm or cold "jet" where the current was moving.  You could feel it against your skin.  It was interesting.

None of the resources on earth are finite.  I think the earth makes everything mentioned above.  Anyone who thinks fossil fuels come from dead dinosaurs is not super intelligent.  The earth makes oil.  The earth makes water.  Same with lithium, cobalt, silicon, gold, silver, titanium and copper.  Plus whatever else you can think of.  Like wood.  From trees.

The problem will be when we use all of these resources at a faster rate than the earth is capable of replenishing what we use.  That will be the real problem.  I guess that's when all those resources will run out.  I wonder how long and what conditions will need to be required to regenerate the resources of the planet?  That's for the scientists or the capitalists to figure out.

Will Earth end up a god forsaken wasteland as depicted in Wall-E?

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