Human are virus! SAVE THE EARTH!, page 1

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by capgirl

None left?
Where do the resources go? Are we shooting all of them off into space?

Not exactly. The truth is more subtle than that & tied up in the Laws of Nature; I may as well call it the Laws of Physics, because it's the same thing.

This universe operates on the self-perpetuating cycle of matter & energy over time; this is one of the fundamental Laws of Physics (Laws of Nature). Different forms of matter & energy interact with each other & even change into different forms of one another. One example is how your body stores its food (fuel) as calories & burns them to create the energy to keep yourself alive...The "matter" of your food (stored as calories) is converted into energy to power your muscles & organs. Thus, your body uses that energy to also grow & replace aging/dying/injured cells in your body; the energy is converted back into matter. After you die, you eventually rot & feed the soil with the stored potential energy within your decomposing remains. After which, plants can use sunlight, water & the leftover nutrients your body leaves in the soil to grow themselves. Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat herbivores & we in turn eat animals...The cycle returns.

In a similar cycle, the resources we use don't "disappear," they're merely changed into another form...That must take time to be re-converted back into a human-usable form once again. As we increase our population & use more resources, Nature can't keep up with the demand because of the limited time-factor to recycle those resources. This happens when greedy people over-exploit our resources for the "profit-motive." This is in clear violation of the concept of "sustainable development," because they develop faster than resources can be sustained.

Originally posted by ST SIR 86
thats all hogwash! about the resorces going dry australia has about 6000 years worth of coal & about 3500 years of natrural gas left! and you know what the natrural gas works in cars aswell as home heating

This is a good example on how the greedy corps are willing to eke out as much profit as they can before oil runs out...Does anybody really think that they're not already prepared to do the same with coal & natural gas? Why else do they become reluctant when told that they have to make coal-burning cleaner? Burning oil ain't much cleaner than coal, but they secretly develop technologies & don't use them because it eats into the "profit-margin." When the time is ripe to exploit a different resource, they're ready to do so.

[edit on 8-12-2009 by MidnightDStroyer]