COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN GOV’T SLAVES
“We are burning
through the planet’s resources, living an unsustainable way of life”
I’m sorry, but this claim is inaccurate, and it is getting tiresome
with countless repetitions. It is a kind of secular religious mantra.
It resembles the words both of those crazed Old Testament
prophets who lived in caves and bellowed about everyone’s transgressions and of
Chicken Little warning about the sky.
The fact is that what is defined as a resource changes through
time.
Things become resources or cease being resources with
changing technology over time. Resources are not a fixed thing like a pile of
stones.
8,000 years ago, iron deposits were not a resource, just an
impediment for someone trying to clear or use some land.
150 years ago, crude was an undesirable mess in some plots
of earth, not a resource.
This is true of every resource you can name.
Even farmland may cease being a resource for growing food in
a century or so. Our food will all come to be manufactured in a manner we find
perfectly acceptable.
Nothing stays the same, except some people’s minds.
