Re:The Economics of Falling Populations
by goatinaboat on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:36PM
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Resources is something we invent and use not something we deplete.
Rainforests are marine biomass and ozone and ice caps are things we invent and not deplete?
They aren't resources they are material we then invent methods to turn into resources or optimize or cultivate to provide better outputs, aquafarming, restoring forests (the world have gotten 14% greener because of increased CO2) etc.
How do you think we were able feed the amount of people we are doing today if it wasn't for our ability to transform things like dead animal goo into energy to power our machines which then again provide wealth which gives us time to do other things.
Resources is something we invent and use not something we deplete. We use these resources to make the world even safer, richers, to pull more people out of poverty all based on producing things of value that humans appreciate.
You are more than welcome to not use the computer you are likely to be using for writing your comments.
But you won't because it's valuable to you, more valuable than the "depletion" of the resources that was used to make it.
So now take you and multiply by 7 billion people and you will see why we are choosing to keep creating and coming up with new resources.