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by technopath 3721 days ago
Oh, I was thinking more like trees, biodiversity, and water honestly. Sharks, plankton, etc. Even if oil became scarce, energy doesn't look like an issue in my lifetime, there's always coal and nuclear.

But like rainforests are going away real quick.

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1) There are more trees in the United States today than there were 100 years ago. No reason that can't happen elsewhere.

2) Water doesn't actually get used up.

1) Can't is different from unlikely to.

2) Aquifers do.

1) You have absolutely no basis for that statement 2) Fossil aquifers aren't the only sources of water. The aren't even the primary source of water, other than in specific geographically-limited regions.