Are we running out of resources?

This explores the issue of the finiteness of our “natural resources”.

Music in order of appearance is:
Dark Sky - Ketsa
Solstice Sighing - Ketsa
Vibration - Ketsa
Boats - Ketsa
Gloomy - Ostin
We know - Ketsa
Dark Sky - Ketsa

[not]

"we create the knowledge then we control the reality" great, great line

[rafaelvongehlen]

Wonderfully beautiful. Optmism in the best Deutschian tradition.

[kosatochca]

I’m like in a time machine with the destination date set on 1965. I felt as if I was watching propaganda cartoons made by big oil or big coal. Yeah, we know how indispensable fossil fuels, metals and other mineral resources are for a modern lifestyle, it’s not up to debate. When experts talk about the limits of growth they mean waste products, left from our activities in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere, constitute an acute danger to our well-being. I’m not really sure what concrete solutions you’re proposing in dealing with this roadblock, but still it’s often much cheaper not to make them in the first place, so more resources could be spent on the scientific progress

[rvx]

Sorry but your point is absurd. No, we're not gonna be keep finding new resources that will replace the old ones. All elements on Earth are finite so the point in the future will come when we used them all up. They can't be effectively recycled, you need to wait for millions of years before stuff is done. The only sensible solution is space mining, but this is a race. Will the resources be depleted first or will we be able to effectively start galactic mining

[Martinit]

9:28 Our ancestors probably thought they were very advanced being able to use wood as resource to ignite a fire. It's not a given.

[ianbynoe]

This dude is crazy.😅 A great optimist 😂 natural resources are finite on earth, buddy. What next ? Space mining? That is very difficult.

[Philosophie]

I can't wait to see this video, at the moment there are no machine translations. I'll be back

[grump]

Yes.... but.

How many people will die on the road from running out of our current main resources, dealing with the likely increasing catastrophic affects of our modern industry's pollution already afflicted onto the planet, to then some eventual future day of someone discovering the new resource to power everything again....? Your video was hopeful and your tone of voice and everything was truly soothing. Seriously. I think your message here is great. But, it doesn't change the fact that in between our current state of affluence and global resource dependence, and that future day of civilization hopefully stabilizing our carbon output, finding way of using a different resource, and continuing to progress humanity overall, it's gonna be a lot of dead people in the middle. Possibly billions, over the course of however long, could be not long at all.. could be 100 years. We won't know til it happens.

But either way, bad stuff is coming when we reach that moment of the lack of key resources that allowed OTHER resources to be produced or transported around the world will bring the world's economy and therefore stability to a total catastrophe.... but I appreciate your shot at hopeful positivity. Because you're right. EVENTUALLY, we'll get there.

It's just that a lot of people are gonna die and suffer in the meantime. :/ Thanks for your vid.

[weardiwo]

yah nah *puts on jack bootz & starts goosestepping* this doesn't make me a goose furrie!.. or featherie

[AbhishekVidhateYT]

Does your model account for externalities?

[hehe_ahaw]

The human body can be a resource in an experiment

[rudibotha]

Question: is it and will it ever be possible to leave the solar system and how long will it take? I'm just wondering if the human race is ever gonna leave the solar system and the milky way galaxy. Will our technology ever get us to other solar systems, if I was a kid i would like to know.

[ideafoodU]

Well done video. Next do: "What could end climate change?"

[sithyuu]

Lets send all the people with knowledge to the middle of the desert, they sure will turn the sand into water with their hands lol 😂

[alexcipriani]

Read some Heidegger or Jacques Ellul sometime it might help cure you of that utilitarian instrumentalist mentality

[marcschriftman]

This is good, but I wish you'd mentioned global warming. It's a new kind of limit that we'll need more knowledge to get around. We may get around it by abandoning coal and turning to renewables, right?

[-_-hi]

40 seconds in and I know you don't know what you're talking about.

[ShawnKepner_YouTube]

So the entire point of this video is burn coal baby because something else will come along. Okay, sounds great, but that is a huge bet with absolutely no hedging whatsoever. So the video comes across as absurd.

[herbsandflowers]

I admire your optimism and I too am a science enthusiast but believing that science or call it the advancement of knowledge will always save our asses, or sorry 'find the next creative solution to the fact that we live on a planet with finite resources' is delusional. Yes, we made it pretty far until now, but as beautifully illustrated through climate change, we sometimes create bigger problems along the road and keeping the balance of our fragile ecosystem on earth is something humans continuously fail to take properly into account. So let's not idolize humans, most of us are science illiterates, unable to consider future consequences and greedy beyond reason. Our insatiable drive towards growth and expansion, without little to no real reflection on potential pitfalls, might very well be our downfall as a species. Look at the heart of humanity's most ambitious technological bullseye: 'AGI', speed-running towards developing one, with little to no care about safety, when a misaligned AGI hits us, we can daydream all we want about our ingenuity while it all kills us. I could continue listing ways shit could hit the fan, but my point probably got across. In short, don't be a science optimist without recognizing that human innovation lacks foresight and the next problem arising after a potential solution, might get us into a bigger mess than what we tried to fix in the first place.