-me clueless politician calls "sustainable"? Because that is the only thing that could significantly reduce the highly-exaggerated impact farming supposedly has on the environment.
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This largely comes from Malthus's 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population. Since then, we have been ten years away from unavoidable, irreparable ecological devastation that will wipe out humanity. The predictions are always wrong. We have barely scratched the surface of the planet's resources.
One of the big Economic Journals is called "The Dismal Science" after the Malthusians.
Malthus? The guy debunked in the Out Of Frame youtube video about Thanos? https://youtu.be/iV18Xx5EkaE
The one and the same. Radical Liberation recently did an excellent stream on the history of Maltusian thinking, including the World Economic Forum.
We've been 10 years away from environmental collapse my entire life,
That's wrong though. Humans have wasted and polluted the planet.
Crude oil's running low so we've switched to fracking and shale oil. I know a few iron mines in the US are shut down because the rich veins have run out and they're digging sub-par ores.
Crude is getting more expensive, so the market invested in a different power source. The earth's core is mostly iron, so that isn't running out anytime soon. I don't understand the problem.
Don't try to understand words like fracking, just scream and writhe when you hear it!
...I am joking of course.
Because crude ran low. How's your gas prices, getting lower?
It's just one example. We've used up the low-hanging fruit of the planet's resources, so extraction is getting more expensive.
The planet does have plenty of resources, but it's managed and wasted by retards. Always has been.
Geoeconomic warfare and primitivist politicians are more responsible for the expense of crude than the increasing difficulty of extraction. Technology will continue to make these things easier, as long as the progressives don't burn all the capital first. Do you propose we tap the hardest to reach resources first?
Spez: I forgot to mention that, yes, gas prices have been low for a while. The commies used to cite falling oil prices as the cause of Venezuela's collapse.
Yes, actually. Not the cheapest in my lifetime, but certainly cheaper than the early-mid 2010's.