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Sorry about all of the "world ending questions", but when will we run out of all natural resources?
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#64698. Asked by dudeman94. (Apr 16 06 6:50 PM)
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mementoflash
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Never.
As long as the planet exists there will be some "natural resource".
The sun is a natural resource.
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xfacilitatorx
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All that we take away eventually goes back. It may be a really long eventually, but nothing leaves this Earth. It gets recycled "eventually".
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gmackematix
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But of course, something doesn't have to leave Earth to chemically change into a form we can no longer use, hence cease to become a "resource".
Clearly that is the difference between renewable energy resources (like wind, wave and solar) and non-renewable (like fossil fuels). The latter we will run out of, but the former we won't.
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xfacilitatorx
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Everything eventually converts back into its most basic component. Energy will again be energy in some form. Etc.
We will just have to learn how to harness it.
Apparently these big consumers of the Earth (Dinosaurs) became what we drive our cars on today. The cycle will repeat.
It may take Millions of years but it will repeat. Nothing leaves Earth. Only heat but we gain it again daily via the Big Yellow Marble.
It is all made of stars.
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gmackematix
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Have you not heard of entropy?
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xfacilitatorx
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Entropy: is mans answer for his impatience for the Suns work on the Suns time.
I certainly understand the point you are making but man can never "burn out" this planet. Everything is convertable when the timeline is long enough.
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gmackematix
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But the question is about when "we" will "run out of" resources, so the question is about our "timeline" not the Sun's. If our non-renewable resources run out, our current flora slowly turning to coal and oil isn't very relevant unless we can speed up the process considerably.
And if you think our planet will always revert back in the long run, look at Venus and see what effect the "Big Yellow Marble" has on anything on the surface there!
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jimmyrussell23
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sources say that the iron and uranium stores in Australia will cease in 30 to 35 years respectively
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xfacilitatorx
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Venus? Why not Pluto or better yet Mercurys surface? If the "we" means the persons now inhabiting the Earth....Not in our life times or our childrens childrens.
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