Name: Anonymous 2005-01-08 17:51
If natural resources such as minerals, trees, and chemicals are being gathered and processed to make everyday products, and these products are eventually burned, pulverized, disintegrated, biodegraded or destroyed to form mostly dust and carbon, which goes back into the earth at some point, and then resides as trace molecules in the dirt, only to be used by plants and bacteria... What happens when we run out of resources? We just have a bunch of dirt with organisms that can live off of it? When all the copper and iron has been mined, when all the oil has been burned up, what do we have left? A bunch of trees to make wood? I'm not trying to sound like an environmentalist, but don't we have a finite amount of resources? Doesn't everything we process eventually get dispersed into waste and ash? Doesn't it all turn into microscopic diluted shit for lesser organisms to live off of? Are we simply making fertilizer for insects and micrsocopic creatures to feed on and make more shit?
Aren't we producing and manufacturing and disposing at a far greater rate than nautral resources can even form? Sure we have enough to sustain ourselves now, but in 10,000 years?
Aren't we producing and manufacturing and disposing at a far greater rate than nautral resources can even form? Sure we have enough to sustain ourselves now, but in 10,000 years?