[sukaka]

Learning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie. There will always be fresh water and oil. The price will not soar when supply is limited, there usually happens to be a new discovery. Eg. The US is a huge unexploited oil field

[anigbrowl]

Learning some 2% of water is fresh and the need to conserve water or it will run out by 2050 was a lie.

The word you're looking for is wrong, unless you're claiming that there was a conspiracy to keep this knowledge a secret.

[DiabloD3]

I don't like being the tinfoil hat in a discussion, but given that what most tinfoil hats have been thinking wrt NSA, etc have been proven true thanks to Snowden, maybe there is a conspiracy to keep clean fresh water a secret to start a civil war on water rights in the US.

And if not, it'd probably make for a good movie.

[sa1]

It won't ever be economical to extract water from 600km below the surface. Also, oil won't last forever.

[thaumasiotes]

It's economical to desalinize seawater (once memorably [to me] described as "the most worthless substance in the world") now. We don't do it because using already-fresh water is even cheaper, but desalinization isn't exactly expensive.

[joshdance]

Source on the economics of desalinization? Everything I have ever seen have put it at pretty expensive. Would love to see a per gallon or liter price.

[dsaravel]

Well, the stone age didn't end for lack of stones.

[TeMPOraL]

Stone is a construction material, not a power source.

[rttlesnke]

As a person who thinks the opposite, this comes as a shock to me. Care to explain?