[Graeme]

10 Innovations To Save Us From Draining The Earth’s Resources

As the population continues to grow, and fossil fuels continue to dwindle, we’ll find it increasingly hard to produce energy, food, and clean water. But advances in technology—some simple, some mind-boggling—are unveiling new ways for us to thrive on the planet’s limited resources.

Warka Water
Energy Tower
The Bio Refrigerator
Mine Kafon
Aerogel
Soylent
Bioluminescence
The Traveling Wave Reactor
Solar Cookers
Oscillating Platforms

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[basil_hayden]

Erm, maximizing Earth's resources? Yeah, that's the ticket!

[vtsnowedin]

Shouldn't we be "Conserving " the worlds resources? We can't make any more of them just not waste them.

[SilentRunning]

NO AMOUNT of technology & green living will enable human beings to exist in this universe until we balance the number of births and deaths.

Even growing at a "modest" rate of 1% per year, the human population in another 10,000 years would become so large THAT EVERY ATOM IN THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE WOULD HAVE TO BE PART OF A HUMAN BODY. Yep, that's right, every star, every planet, every dust grain in the universe would have to be a part of a human body. I read this a while ago, and I checked the math. It is correct.

So if we want to have even a chance of surviving into the future, then STOPPING POPULATION GROWTH is ESSENTIAL. Nothing else will work.

[vtsnowedin]

NO AMOUNT of technology & green living will enable human beings to exist in this universe until we balance the number of births and deaths.

Even growing at a "modest" rate of 1% per year, the human population in another 10,000 years would become so large THAT EVERY ATOM IN THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE WOULD HAVE TO BE PART OF A HUMAN BODY. Yep, that's right, every star, every planet, every dust grain in the universe would have to be a part of a human body. I read this a while ago, and I checked the math. It is correct.

So if we want to have even a chance of surviving into the future, then STOPPING POPULATION GROWTH is ESSENTIAL. Nothing else will work.

Your absolutely correct and we have discussed this extensively in other threads here. It boils down to two choices, one decrease births to an overall fertility rate of less then 1.0 or two increase death rates up to about twice the birth rate. Option two can be accomplished by war, starvation ,disease or genocide. Religion politics and cultural customs prohibit option one in most of the world where the over population problem lies so we will have a choice from option two forced on us or more likely all of them in varying amounts from region to region.
Unfortunately war wastes a lot of resources and the more of that indulged in the faster resource depletion will bring on starvation and disease leaving the final survivors with little if any resources left.