Are we running out of resources?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- This explores the issue of the finiteness of our “natural resources”.
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Dark Sky - Ketsa
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Gloomy - Ostin
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"we create the knowledge then we control the reality" great, great line
Wonderfully beautiful. Optmism in the best Deutschian tradition.
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
What you call « waste » is a ressource we don’t know how to use. If we had better knowledge it wouldn’t be waste. And having less energy is only going to make it more difficult to create that knowledge.
Great new video Brett! Cheers
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.
I can't wait to see this video, at the moment there are no machine translations. I'll be back
yah nah *puts on jack bootz & starts goosestepping* this doesn't make me a goose furrie!.. or featherie
Excellent stuff here Brett
No! Just original ideas!
Great video
Does your model account for externalities?
Yes. As I say: there is no unproblematic state. "Problems are inevitable" - which is basically another way of saying "Externalities are inevitable".
What "externalities" ? Third-galaxy aliens who'll see their habitat endangered when we master fusion energy, artificial general intelligence, reversible computing, FTL travel... and conquer the Milky Way ?
@@maloxi1472 Resource extraction in general, not in any particular case. If I did in my backyard for gold, it might kick up dust that annoys my neighbours, or perhaps I dig so deep that I strike the groundwater being used by the town as a freshwater supply. But the larger the region of physical reality and the smaller the population density then, yes: "externalities" asymptote to zero. Presumably mining asteroids in the asteroid belt carries some risk of destabilising orbits of rocks in space that might affect Earth one day? Presumably that risk is much much lower for Kuiper belt objects? And so it goes for interstellar rocks and then intergalactic and so on?
@@bretthall9080 Let's also not forget that by expanding our circle of influence we can mitigate many dangers. Floods used to be devastating and only way to deal with them was to run away or better stay away from flood plains. We have mastered dykes and can mitigate floods to high degree now.
But other dangers are still beyond our circle of influence: dinosaurs were extinct by a meteorite impact. Today if a similar sized meteor was coming we'd be doomed. In near future we will be able to divert meteors and eventually doing so will be like opening an umbrella, i.e. taken for granted as much as "of course we use dykes to mitigate floods - who wouldn't?".
good content
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.
Yes. It is possible. No one knows how long it will take. No one yet knows much about this - leaving the solar system or galaxy. But if there is no physical law in the way (and there is not) then the only thing preventing us from accomplishing that is not knowing how. But one day we will. So yes: look forward one day to our technology allowing us to leave the solar system. Indeed the Voyager Spacecrafts (probes) are already so far from the Sun they are basically on the way to other solar systems already :)
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
Tell me you didnt watch the video without telling me you didnt watch the video
What will be done about demographic decline?
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.
Lots of people are gonna die, whatever people decide to do. Each non-trivial decision is a calculated risk. For example, if you were to become "queen of the world" and decide to stop the use of coal, billions of people would die in the following months, especially in the third world. Increasing our knowledge as fast as possible is the only way out of true existential risk.
@@maloxi1472 Yes, I think this is roughly the answer to @@UCJMIuhi_nc-sqwtcN7HGsDg. Basically there is no unproblematic state. Choosing *not* to engage in "modern industry" for example is a choice to hasten a far worse world than the one we inhabit - including for all the animals and plants people say they care for and the planet itself. The claim that "billions" of dead are just around the corner has never been true in our times, in our world. It was only true *absent* our knowledge, industry, energy and resources. The way to guarantee far larger numbers of dead, sick and starving compared with otherwise is to stifle or slow growth and use of resources. The choice is not between "dead from pollution" and "not dead from living in the natural environment". It is: flourishing in a prosperous society and community protected *from* the environment vs dead in vast numbers from the attacks from the natural environment.
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 😂
This dude is crazy.😅 A great optimist 😂 natural resources are finite on earth, buddy. What next ? Space mining? That is very difficult.
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Who knows our future might start to live on different planets as well, use the resources of that planet to meet our demands.
500 years ago no one would have ever thought that humans will fly in sky, now we have planes & helicopter
The human body can be a resource in an experiment
Scintillating video essay.
Read some Heidegger or Jacques Ellul sometime it might help cure you of that utilitarian instrumentalist mentality
Well done video. Next do: "What could end climate change?"
I think the market for that kind of video is rather saturated :P
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@@bretthall9080 Not if you have a perspective grounded in reality and not one that is vestige of the CleanTech marketing PR from the 90s.
@@bretthall9080 That's very true 😄
Convert quartz sand -> photovoltaic panels -> free electricity for decades.
I think solar PV is a great hack to get (essentially) free electricity. Right now we are in the transistion from fossil to solar and wind energy so we have quite high capital expenditure to build those panels but once they are up we will have quite abundant energy, esp those people who have panels on their roof.
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?
We can now use photovoltaic arrays to mimic what plants do, but shortcut the generation of electricity dramatically: The PV array directly produces voltage and current without any moving parts. Probably one of the greatest (and hopefully most consequential) achievements of the last century. No need for plants to grow, die, be isolated from oxygen, compressed for millions of years to create coal, that needs to be dug out of mines, put into a furnace to heat water, spin a turbine which finally creates electricity.
We can use the PV array to undo the previous burning of coal and oil (at great expense of energy of course) i.e. extract the CO2 from the atmosphere - so called carbon capture and storage. We are in the early stage of learning how to do it at great scale and efficiently.
@Utube Fknsucks I've seen no evidence that's true, and lots of evidence that global warming is. Paranoia without evidence is just paranoia.
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.
No.
40 seconds in and I know you don't know what you're talking about.
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.
The entire point of the video was not "burn coal baby" - but thanks for your input 🤣