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The cost of these sorts of materials has been lower over recent decades due to improved refining techniques etc. You don't need me to tell you that. I'm not arguing that point in any way. Yes I agree that we'll continue to be able to utilize natural resources which were previously unavailable due to poorer or less developed technologies etc.
My point still remains that these natural resources are being depleted slowly but surely and soon they will not exist. By soon I don't mean tomorrow. Maybe they'll last 100 more years or even a thousand, but that's a very small period of time in comparison to how long this planet has been inhabited.
I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to realize that unless they change right now, there will be no future. Yes we'll develop different ways of living. Maybe one day everyone will be the right weight and no one will be pigging out while someone else starves. Maybe one day we wont rely on fossil fuels. Maybe one day solar power will be a realistic option. Maybe maybe maybe. What about what we know as fact?
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