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The helium shortage is actually overblown, for what it's worth, and it's definitely not a crisis at the moment. The short version is that the US has been releasing vast quantities of helium from its strategic reserve for decades, which in turn kind of hosed up the market and any attempts at further discovery. It's absolutely a limited resource that needs to be conserved, but we're not in any near term danger of running out. Rudatron is right that the resources to be seriously concerned about in the near future are water and land. Water access and management is going to be a huge issue for the developing world and likely a major economic drag for the developed world over the next several decades.
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Liquid Communism posted:There's plenty of oil, too, it's just not as cheap to extract. Peak oil is actually just a prediction about production, not supply. You can have peak oil while there's still plenty of the stuff in the ground, it just has to be so expensive to extract that we don't bother or can't afford to increase production anymore.
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