Comments on: Perhaps the most important JPG you will see this year

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:32:08 +0000

I hate to say it, but that seemed like a poor visualization to me. Why round?

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:09:38 +0000

I thought I’d seen that somewhere before…

FYI, that graphic was lifted from the following New Scientist article (from 23 May 2007) which is well worth a read: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426051.200-earths-natural-wealth-an-audit.html?full=true

By: Therealmatthare

Therealmatthare — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:05 +0000

Nobody angry that the us consumption is well out of line with their population percentage? Greedy fucks.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:42:47 +0000

@ Hyperion

I’m guessing it’ll be more like Escape from LA without LA being in a containable region.

The desert wasteland crap is just not going to happen. There will be no spice. There will be no solarbabies.

By: supergp

supergp — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:33:01 +0000

Well, at least our global supplies of skepticism and apathy are inexhaustible.

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olilolo blog » Blog Archive » Ways The World Will End: Addendum — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:21:58 +0000

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By: Remora

Remora — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:04:53 +0000

I’m going to bookmark it and wait until the end of the year, see if this claim stands up.

By: CB

CB — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:47:57 +0000

Man… Sure could use some Unobtainium right about now…

By: hudson

hudson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:54:13 +0000

All hail Malthus, predicting the depletion of everything for only a couple hundred years now.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:59:12 +0000

I’m scared now. Very very scared.

By: dev

dev — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:36:36 +0000

Don’t these people watch Battlestar Galactica?

By: njs

njs — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:58:10 +0000

I’m shocked Helium didn’t make the list. Lots of critical industrial uses (cryogenics, etc.), and unlike most of those — which, when you get desperate enough, you can start “mining” out of landfills — helium slowly leaks from any storage container you can come up with and then it floats off into space.

I’m a little skeptical, though, of their decision to conflate “total amount available before we run out” and “current reserve base”. Most of these things do exist in only limited quantities, and we’ll run out at some point, but that may or may not be when we’ve run through the reserves we currently know about. Claiming further exploration will lead to *no* further deposits is just as dishonest as the oil apologists who claim that further exploration will *always* lead to new deposits.

By: Hyperion

Hyperion — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:06:03 +0000

Alright, let’s place our bets. Will our depleted husk of a planet be more of a “Mad Max” scenario, or something closer to Dune?

By: Lawnmower Boy

Lawnmower Boy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:32:40 +0000

Hey, I read that book in high school. In cuneiform.*
(http://www.amazon.ca/Limits-Growth-Project-Predicament-Mankind/dp/0451136950/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263065284&sr=8-4)
It was wrong then. And it’s wrong now.
Don’t we have enough real problems (hint: global warming) to deal with?

*You young kids today don’t appreciate the nice cuneiform you have. When I was young, a tablet weighed 50lbs, and we had to carry it to school five miles every day. Through the snow. Uphill. Both ways. And we were lucky.

By: karellan

karellan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:37:02 +0000

mcCarthy, not McCormack. Sorry. Brain’s mushy thanks to the weekend.