I’m betting the sage is Sam Kinison. I can’t open up YouTube at work, but I’m also betting the bit has something about ‘sand’ in it. Very funny. And true.
Well, surely copper production is going down! It even says so in the OP!
Well… maybe platinum?
At least, as we all know, oil production has fallen off the shelf.
Hm. Well, here’s the thing. If oil production has been rising, obviously the amount of proven reserves in this world has fallen over time, right? After all, if Iran had 50 billion barrels of proven reserves in 1980, and has pumped a billion barrels a year, every year on average… than today, they must be sitting on about 16 billion barrels. Regardless of the number, the amount of oil in Iran (or, hell, any of the top five producing countries) has to be lower today than 34 years ago.
Selective breeding and selective elimination of humans deemed unfit to habitat the world will occur first … no need to worry, unless your too poor to own a cell phone of course.
The percentage of people starving in Africa and Asia is lower than ever.
Than why do people say there is shortage of gold and silver? And why is it so costly.
Who’s saying that?
And it’s costly because lots of people want to have it.
Shortage?
What do you mean by that?
Are you trying to say that there are people who critically need Gold and Silver, and can’t get them? Or, are you confusing shortage with rarity? Gold and Silver (especially Gold) are not common in the Earth’s crust. Gold ranks 72/78 and Silver 65/78 (the higher the number, the less common the element). From Abundance of elements in Earth's crust - Wikipedia.
Even if no Gold or Silver had ever been mined, they would still be rare - that one of the main reasons they are valuable.
Gold production has been more-or-less steadily increasing. Silver production has increased even more.
Perhaps you should ask the people who are saying that. And ask yourself why you would believe them.
In the old days people use to mined for gold and paper currency was later derived from gold deposit in bank.Money was base on gold and silver.Doing gold rush some people got rich of gold.Now days it is paper currency than gold currency system .But if people buy gold it is more scure than putting money in stock thus TV commercial of buy gold.Gold is scure where money can be worleess in crash.
Anyways now days we cannot through paper currency out the window and go to gold system because there not enough gold for eveyone.Gold and silver where never in large abounts like water or sand or there currency would be worthless and now days it is even less. Same with gym stones and diamonds.
Some activists talk about space mining if such technology would bring space cost down to allow space mining to be profitable.
I think problem is there is lots of gold and oil it just it is really hard to get to now days because it really deep and less profitable to extract . Than why space activists talk about space mining.
The mainland Chinese media has touted “space mining” as a justification for their moon rover program, but I don’t think anyone with any knowledge of space issues takes it seriously at all.
As for TV commercials touting gold, those are people trying to sell you on the idea that you should buy gold from them because the national or world economy is about to collapse. But there’s nothing backing up the “value” of gold any more than paper money.
And as for oil becoming more difficult to extract, it’s just the opposite, really – google “shale oil” if you’re interested.
Just out of curiosity, are you posting from China? China is indeed facing very serious shortages of power and water, but that’s a function of their horrible pollution and unbalanced economy, more than anything else.
Just look at a picture of the freaking planet, it is 75% water. Anyone claiming we are running out of water should be immediately dismissed.
As someone else on this board once said (and I’ve forgotten who it was); If someone is trying to sell you something and promising its value will only go up, you should be asking yourself one question: “Then why are they selling it?”
There’s plenty of water on Earth.
Drinkable water is a different story.
Making drinkable water out of sea water isn’t particularly difficult.
No, it’s only expensive, and environmentally damaging.
And, there are plenty of locations that are destined for water shortages that aren’t near oceans - I live in one.
Access to drinkable water is probably the major issue for the coming century.
The situation is much more dire than any of us realized - Sen. Lindsay Graham says, “The world is literally about to blow up.”
Holy cow, Senator! How long do we have before the Earth goes BOOM! Days? Weeks? Omigod!
“Supplying all domestic water by sea water desalination would increase US Domestic energy consumption by around 10%, about the amount of energy used by a domestic refrigerator.”
“In Israel as of 2005, desalinating water costs US$ 0.53 per cubic meter (0.053¢ per liter).[25] As of 2006, Singapore was desalinating water for US$ 0.49 per cubic meter.”
Sure, transporting it inland would be the real expensive part, but then, you make your choice to live in a desert, you probably shouldn’t be surprised or put out by the lack of water.
Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd is exactly correct when he says 'If the sea dies, we die." The sea and so many other things are dying so rapidly, that I believe the prediction that humans have about 140 years maximum to survive.
I was just at the Jurong Bird park in Singapore. A huge, beautiful park of 5,000 birds, mostly moving freely. But tag after tag after tax showed the bird was now extinct in the wild or will be extinct very shortly. Great. So whales, sharks, birds, many animals are going extinct, but humans are somehow exempt? Sure.
That’s a helluva refrigerator. 10% of US domestic energy is an enormous number. Better than dying of thirst, but still.
Not for me. I have the good sense to live where I’m surrounded by the stuff. If you choose to live in desert or whatever, well, that’s your problem.
*you not meaning bowulff personally, but a general you to whoever lives there