We've fallen for another Suspect drive-by, and here I am responding...
My petty complaint is about the graphic, and how unintuitive it is. What's wrong with traditional stats and graphs?
My major complaint is that these projections usually use current rates of consumption, or extrapolate out the exponential growth when there is no way to predict what will influence consumption in the future. Consumers will certainly respond to price change.
I wonder what the projected date of whale extinction was back in the oil lamp burning days just before electricity was put to use?
My last point is that the natural response to anything that is becoming scarce is to conserve it. The world cannot be destroyed/saved by exploiting/hugging it, so conservation is a valuable end in itself, without need of doomsday hype.
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...eliminate the USERS and the remaining MATERIALS/RESOURCES should last forever (sarcasm embedded)!
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You think that's a joke, but
these wackos are serious.