| pokoko said: The interesting thing here for me is the idea that the ultimate hope of humankind is that we must eventually find a way to colonize other planets. If we don't, as resources run dry at a quickening rate, then we'll eventually turn Earth into Dune--well, maybe not with the giant Sandworms, but it will get bad. Then all that technology will be used to fight over dwindling resources.
As there have been hundreds, likely even thousands, of science fictions stories and novels on that very subject, then probably not. |
With resources running dry what are you refering to ? As the resources that we use are still on the planet after we use them its just a technological thing to refresh them or convert them in resources we need.
Technically speaking there is no resource lost ever. At the moment, when we speak of lost resources, we are speaking about things that do not make financial sense to restore yet.
I also dont think we are a threat for the planet.
The damage humanity has done to the world is nothing compared to a bigger asteroid impact or a super vulcano eruption. The earths ecosystem would be able to recover from a full blown nuclear war in a few millenia. Chernobyl is full of animals and plants.
What we did until know is mainly damaging for us. We still have big polar Caps. There were periods in earths life span were there were none and jungle was everywhere. We are one of our biggest threat except some extinction scale event, but we are not yet a real threat to our planet. Maybe if we start manipulating the position of celestial bodies then a mistake could destroy the earth.
