Will the world ever run out of natural resources?

[Dragon_Droppings]

Do you believe that the world will ever run out of natural resources? Why or why not?

[Jupiter]

YES.

just kidding. i honestly don't think we will. we just keep planting more trees. but, i hope im not around for when that happens.

[Weber_Swagg]

If we don't change because it's being used faster than it can be replaced.

[double r]

We will at one point it takes hundred of years for somethings to develop (ex fossil fuels)

[User_Does Not Exist]

One day it will happen, probably not in our generation though.

[MisterSix]

If we do, we will use synthetic ones

[Breakeven]

Yup but maybe not run out but become hard to find , just look around n see how people are using everythin now days

[Magus]

No need for us to use natural sources in the distant future.

[Genghis Khan]

If I subscribed to the Malthusian trap I'd say yes, but that's proven to be inaccurate. So I'm going to say... I have no fucking clue, I'm not a fortune-teller.

[TheMatrix]

we just keep planting more trees. but, i hope im not around for when that happens.
No amount of trees is going to save you, I'm afraid, unless they somehow give off other natural resources such as oil. Alas, most don't.

[Mortal Coil]

Yes, we will. At least the non-renewable ones, hence the term non-renewable- there's no way to renew them so they're bound to run out.

[plebble]

I think we should just generate our electricity by nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal... anything renewable which can replace fossil fuels, so that the fossil fuels will last longer for vehicles and transport.

[plebble]

YES.

just kidding. i honestly don't think we will. we just keep planting more trees. but, i hope im not around for when that happens.

Planting trees won't make the oil, coal and gas come back...

[ImCoolBeans]

Plant trees, give hugs, blow kisses, etc. But really, planting trees might make our forests fuller, while in reality it's not solving anything to do with oil, coal and pollution which is killing the wildlife. We'll definitely run out of fossil fuels eventually, and it's probably not THAT far off, but I'm sure that alternatives will be commercialized eventually.

[Cicero]

I think one day it will happen. But I don't think for another 1,000+ years. I know that China is starting to run out of Maganese, which is the worlds biggest supplier of the metal, and that metal happens to be one of the top 5 important metal in the world.

[Skeptical Bear]

My teacher did say that the U.S. could run out of oil in about 50 years but who knows.

[ImCoolBeans]

My teacher did say that the U.S. could run out of oil in about 50 years but who knows.

We apparently has a few massive untapped oil reserves. I don't think it'll be that soon. Once things start to get pretty hairy we'll probably tap them. Then maybe oil can be 14 cents per gallon here while Venezuelans get fucked over with $4.00 + per gallon. But that's only in an idealistic world.

[Electra Heart]

Well... "unlimited resources" "limited resources" ....

[Neptune]

If we keep on this track, yes. However, I can't tell the future. Society changes way to much to know for sure. A hundred years ago, do you think they thought that society would be the way it is today? So, who knows, maybe they will figure out some way to save resources... or we will go to another planet and take their resources.

[RoseyCadaver]

I heard Soylent Corp is coming out with more flavors :), so no need to worry.

[Rayquaza]

We probably will.

But don't worry, well soon have other resources to use, and different ways of producing electricity and fuel will step into place.

[Short Circuit]

Of course it will, you cant keep taking without giving back. Forget nuclear power, look what happened in Japan and Chernobyl, radiated areas for centuries to come! We need to look at wind turbines, solar panels and more bio fuels.

It will be useless crying when its all gone bad, and there are no more natural resources for our children, or our children's children. ACT NOW!

[Amaryllis]

Nothing is created or destroyed. Whatever happens to us humans, the world will go on. We're not going to incurably fuck up the environment because it'll know how to adapt. Most likely, we'll evolve into a species more adapt to future environments. Or not.

Either way, natural resources aren't going to "run out." Unless the world all of a sudden disappears completely. The world will just be different. You know what they say, nothing comes from nothing.

[Erasmus]

Ya, I think it will because some things ( eg fossil fuels) take such a long time to develop, and we are using them much too fast for them to replenish themselves.

[Kacey]

Realistically: yes we will
optimisically: no lol, when we were running out of coal we jumped on the oil bandwagon may there's a more plentyful resourse out there like hydrogen

[LuciferSam]

The Earth will always continue to produce resources, but if humans continue to use them at the rate that they are, there will be a large gap between when we have them. Take oil, for example. Oil production is something that is constantly occuring, but it's production rate is far slower than the rate at which it is being consumed. Unless we find a more easily renewable source of energy, there will be a time when there is no oil on the earth, but after a few million more years, it will be there again.

Just one last thing: Humans classify themselves as mamals. However, mamals are able to generate an equilibrium with their environment, being able to sustain themselves by it, but using their resources in moderation (largely because of nature, natural selection, adaptations, etc.), allowing time for their environment to produce more resources so that it doesn't really run out.

Humans do not follow this pattern. They find a place to live, multiply, and stay there until all or most resources are used up. From that point, they spread out to a location where the resources have not been used, and start to use them, and so the pattern continues.

There is one other organism that follows a similar pattern.

Do you know what it is?

A virus.

[Aves]

I can see it happening. The population is growing so rapidly that use of natural resources increases as well. However, the rate at which those natural resources are being replenished is not going to be fast enough to keep up with the demand.

[Lawliet]

It's possible, by that time we should have better alternatives that are more practical and less expensive.

[MaximumR]

We can't run out because fossil fuels like coal and oil are constantly being made but its such a slow process, it can't keep up with the rate we're using them at. So there will be a time when there are no more left to use but they will eventually come back. Plus, we have renewable resources like Solar power or wind which is always replacable

[JackShephard]

One day, Ulamog the infinite gyre will swallow up every recourse we have left. Lol Jk

Honestly, I do not know.

[AbbaZabba]

I read an article on the next Great Depression. Through computers, they predicted 2030 is when it is going to occur. They said it would be because of lack of resources and not economical. It made sense.

[Marky]

i dont belive that we will ever run out of resourses, i think this because once the resourses dwindle down to were only the vastly rich can buy a small piece of what is left the povershed placess will die out [along with there people] the population would than decrease to a size managable for the trees, air, and fresh water to not only support but also replenish itself. the population would than fluxuate every million years or so , making it possible not only too support itself but to also replenish its self. if you wanted to see this in graph form than you would draw a parent function Sin graph were the x-axis would symbolize the amount of people the plants could support and the sin function would be the population size on the world over thousands of years