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| Sabertooth | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 20:08 |
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 Level: 0 | There´s a doomer on a board I post, that has an insane obsession with everything that screams "doom" here´s his latest gem: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/global_scarcity_scramble_for_dwindling_natural_resources/2531/ So, what are the possible ways to take this apart? | |||||
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| emcada | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 01:07 |
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 Level: 0 | well did you read through it? Typically doomsayers just gloss over something and pick the parts that fit their ideology. That's one method. The second one I can think of would be that the resources are diminishing, but it shouldn't be something to be too concerned about if we put our trust n engineers' work since their work consists of how can we reach x in the most efficiient way possible (least amount of resources). | |||||
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| CyborgJesus | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 04:46 |
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 Level: 6 CS Original | The link is more of an opinion piece than anything verifiable. But even the step from a "tech-realist", i.e., somebody who doesn't believe that superior technology and smart entrepreneurship will be enough to sustain our economic need for vast amounts of raw resources, to a doomer is a rather large one; You still have to account for the "when" and "for whom" when posing that resources are going to run out. | |||||
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| Sabertooth | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 07:53 |
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Level: 0 | Any good sources for debunking this kind of opinions? Or things such as this? http://vimeo.com/42720491 | |||||
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