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yes but humanity is draining resources out of the planet at an alarming rate, not to mention the fact that they're non-renewable resources and not renewable I.E. coal,diamond,gold and so on and so forth.
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Eh, we still have a lot more of those resources than the environmentalists would like you to believe. I'm not saying we'll run out, because we will, just that it's nowhere near as close to being exhausted as you think.
(Diamond and gold in particular are used more in jewelry and as placeholders for money than, y'know, actual, practical uses, like electrical conductors and diamond edges, which is kind of stupid in hindsight if you ask me.)
If you ask me, the main problem is that we're not putting the right funding toward alternative forms of energy, especially nuclear power. People make a big deal about nuclear meltdowns even though reactors are far more secure than any other kind of power plant. Heck, a fertilizer plant in Texas exploded a few months ago, causing a lot of toxic waste to enter the air, but no one made as much a deal about it as any nuclear accident. Biofuels have proved to be a bust in terms of fuel efficiency and it's beyond me why all of this government money (at least in the United States) is being used to research that instead of something practical like fusion -- which is the biggest bang for your buck energy-wise outside of anti-matter and black holes.