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Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i... by technopath on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:59AM (#11509397)
Oh, I was thinking more like trees, biodiversity, and water honestly. Sharks, plankton, etc. Even if oil became scarce, energy doesn't look like an issue in my lifetime, there's always coal and nuclear.

But like rainforests are going away real quick.

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Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i... by Turing_Machine on Saturday April 16, 2016 @09:36AM (#11510541)
1) There are more trees in the United States today than there were 100 years ago. No reason that can't happen elsewhere.

2) Water doesn't actually get used up.

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Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i... by technopath on Saturday April 16, 2016 @11:13PM (#11513345)
1) Can't is different from unlikely to.

2) Aquifers do.

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Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i... by Turing_Machine on Sunday April 17, 2016 @10:20AM (#11514564)
1) You have absolutely no basis for that statement 2) Fossil aquifers aren't the only sources of water. The aren't even the primary source of water, other than in specific geographically-limited regions.
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