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Good news: here’s why we won’t run out of minerals (including oil)

By / 27 Comments / 25 May 2019

Summary:  Among the fear barrages of the past 50 years, “running out of resources” has been the most persistent. Here is why we won’t run out of minerals. As for other kinds of resources, that is a more complex story for another day. I first ran this excerpt in January 2011. The history of America …

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Recovering lost knowledge about exhaustion of the Earth’s resources (such as Peak Oil)

By / 4 Comments / 26 July 2017

Summary:  One of the saddest aspects of the Internet is that it so often fails to make us smarter.  In a mutant version of Gresham’s Law, loud amateurs too-often drown out the voices of experts.  Here we an excerpt from a 1975 book that tells us more about Peak Oil than a typical dozen posts …

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