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by femto 1542 days ago
The finite resource is places to put the byproducts.
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This is really just CO2. Everything else is more easily controllable, recyclable, or avoidable.

If you look at the mass of material extracted from the Earth, fossil fuels > all mineral resources. To first order, the resource problem is the fossil fuel problem, and we're on a trajectory to get off fossil fuels.