The IEEE noticed that peak copper is coming this century, too. 10000 years we've been mining all the copper we wanted, no trouble, but sometime before 2100 the tide turns. If you think there's been a lot of copper theft lately, just wait till the prices double a few more times.
But the real crunch will no doubt be some out-of-left-field interaction between resource shortages. -- rec -- On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Hightower and others at Sandia have been predicting that water will > be (perhaps already is) the critical resource at the root of social unrest > and change in our era. Water is needed for life sustainment, it's needed > for food production, and it's heavily intertwined with energy production. > > http://www.sandia.gov/energy-water/ > > >
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