So according to the video: If we're not running out of resources, why do we need to use them more efficiently?
To deny we are running out of resources, is the true "economic ignorance". We live in a debt based system that requires infinite growth but our planet and it's resources are certainly finite. If we had infinite resources, our debt based system could go on forever, but it can't because we don't. People don't look at what it takes to make that car, that some guy took a loan out on and the bank created money from air to pay for. This is why our system will eventually collapse because eventually you will run out of the resources required to build the items that people go into debt to buy. Without people taking on more debt, banks can't create more money from thin air and it all comes tumbling down.
ZB is right. It is nice to see someone who understands fundamental economic truths. You can just study BP's Statistical Report if you still think that we are running out of resources. The truth is that known oil reserves are growing faster than oil consumption.
Just because you agree with him, doesn't make him "right". And your refuting evidence comes from BP? I'm totally convinced now.
I don't "agree" with him. I know he is right because I have studied this myself. The R/P ratios (reserves divided by production) rises for many fossile fuels and since the end of the 19th century some people who do not understand economics have been warning about peak oil. Peak oil is a myth but I don't see why we should have a political argument about it.
You have the right to your opinion and that's all it is. An opinion. My opinion, is that your opinion is not based in reality. How can supply be growing faster than consumption when oil is the result of millions of years of decay?
If the oil reserves of the world were growing, we wouldnt need to figure out how to drill for oil in the arctic, or go through rediculously expensive processes to refine oil sands or invent ways to profitably extract oil from shale. I mean really? Are you really buying what OPEC is selling? Because that's where your information is coming from.
You're not getting it.
Supply growing faster than demands does not mean more oil is being produced by decay. It just means that with new tech we're finding more of it now, and it is not so scarce as we once thought. The two latest big deposits found (Brazil and Australia, not Middle east !) are amongst the biggest ever found.
And as you say, we don't "need" to figure out artic drilling. It is done because it is profitable. You don't "need" to keep mining BTC, right?
The more ridiculously expensive the process is, the more profits to be made.
All this said, this whole scheme needs to die. The people behind these companies are the same people who control governments, law, energy, food industries, metal industries and the banking system. It's a closed circuit.
Hopefully BTC or its future follower is the path to disruption but....... I feel these same hands are already tightening their grip here as well...