floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareGreyghoster@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoSounds like doomish stuff. We innovate all the time. If copper and lithium are short supply items then technology will morph to use something else.
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoEh. Or we could just keep some areas impoverished and underdeveloped and profit off their cheap labor… !remindme 15 years
minus-squarelectricleopard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoThis was my first thought, we aren’t going to develop the whole world. That’s not how this works. Who said that was a goal of… well … anyone’s? That’s a rhetorical question. Frfr tho, does that remind me work on your instance only, or what’s the deal with that?
minus-squareKhanzarate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoOh dang time flies when you’re having fun exploiting people
Sounds like doomish stuff. We innovate all the time. If copper and lithium are short supply items then technology will morph to use something else.
Eh. Or we could just keep some areas impoverished and underdeveloped and profit off their cheap labor…
!remindme 15 years
This was my first thought, we aren’t going to develop the whole world. That’s not how this works. Who said that was a goal of… well … anyone’s?
That’s a rhetorical question. Frfr tho, does that remind me work on your instance only, or what’s the deal with that?
hey it has been 15 years
Oh dang time flies when you’re having fun exploiting people