There Is No Natural Resource Crisis, And There Never Was

In reality, we have never been nearer toward ending the global need for natural resources, and the solution isn’t cricket paste, cockroach milk, and EVs, either.

Water Desalination Is Now Industrially Possible

For starters, MIT Researchers just made a water desalination device that can can provide freshwater from seawater in just one hour. [3] Their technology will not only be cheaper than tapwater, but also can be scaled up so that each family can use their own personal water storehouse. The device mimics the god-created evaporation process of the ocean, which allows the water to distill significantly faster than previous technologies.

And the best part is, the salt also drains automatically from the bottom, so you don’t have to dump out buckets of salt.

With this is mind, the water crisis has been given the death blow. All that needs to be done, to scale this up industrially for those living in the plains, is pipe the water in straight from the ocean.

While the water crisis certainly wasn’t the only so-called “natural resource scarcity,” it was the only one without a good solution… until now.

But let’s look at the other aspects of the so-called “crisis” and see how they have been solved, too.

Gas Can Be Easily Replaced By Hydrogen Power

Whether people want to admit it or not, W. was onto something with hydrogen power. It is easy to mass produce, and requires just a singular, extremely light, storage container to power the engines. Plus the only byproduct is water, so it is environmentally friendly, too. [4]

Automakers already sell hydropowered cars, which means the technology is already consumer-ready. They also last between 300-400 miles on a single tank, [5] and the engines last between 150-200,000 miles. [6] Plus, unlike electric vehicles, it only takes 3-5 minutes to fill a hydrogen fuel cell. The only downside is the price, which is currently between $70-120/refuel. But if this technology were invested in more, that price would drop.

The added benefit of hydrogen cars is that they would also use significantly less fossil fuels, unlike current electronic cars. And some forms of hydrogen power don’t require natural gas to produce at all.

Chickens And Organic Vegetables Are Incredibly Sustainable

While GMO food has the benefits of being more resistant to sickness and pests, they are also not able to be regrown from the seeds. [7] This presents a problem for sustainability down the road.

However, almost anyone can grow foods in their backyards, and with a globalized economy, seasonal food is grown almost anywhere. The beauty of using organic food is that the seeds can be used to grow new plants for the next growing cycle. This effectively solves the food crisis (that never really existed in the first place [10] ).

However, people don’t realize just how little space it takes to raise chickens, either. A chicken just needs 15 square feet minimum, and just one rooster can populate an entire hen house. [8]

Chickens provide a nearly endless supply of eggs and also meat. Additionally, chickens are insanely cheap to own. A single chicken only costs, at the absolute most, $20/month. For a flock of 5 hens, it is a grand total of just $69/month on the high side. [9] This equates to the cost of one trip to the grocery store.

So meat and vegetables are highly sustainable and anyone can raise chickens and grow vegetables in their backyard, let alone make an industry out of it. There is no food crisis at all. We already have sustainable solutions that can be implemented today.

At the end of the day, the natural resource crisis has been effectively solved. Water, power, and food have highly sustainable production methods. So we can stop warning of some sort of impending doom.

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SOURCES:

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/08/how-do-resources-create-conflict/

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