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"Resources" is a pretty catch-all term, but there's very few things we're in real danger of running out of. Nothing we use really disappears from earth, thanks to living at the bottom of a big gravity well. I've heard people hand-wringing about how reconstruction after a collapse will be impossible because there's no iron left to dig! All the iron ore available nowadays is really low % so we wouldn't be able to make any tools! THERE'S NO IRON! Except for the millions upon millions of tonnes of rusty iron we've already dug up out of the earth that we're not currently doing anything with, because it's part of old cars and rubble and junk. There's a lot of stuff like this, where the resource we're supposedly "running out of" still exists in enormous quantities but if we had to get more we'd need to be more efficient or energy-intensive about it. Energy and environment are the big questions, but even maximum climate change could be ridden out fairly well for the rest of your short gay life without too much disruption in rich countries. Even the US is getting pretty good about renewables and we STILL don't seem to have hit the dreaded peak oil (or peak fossil). So I wouldn't worry too much about "collapse". As far as disasters go you're far more likely to be killed as a result of terrible politics or murderous economic policy than anything mother earth can come up with. Unless ocean acidification causes a mass die-off of sealife within the next couple of decades, then everyone dies.
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