{"id":2310,"date":"2014-12-02T07:21:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:21:35","slug":"the-environment-depleting-resources-crash-course-chapter-23-peak-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2310","title":{"rendered":"The Environment: Depleting Resources &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 23 | Peak Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/blog\/89245\/environment-depleting-resources-crash-course-chapter-23\">The Environment: Depleting Resources &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 23 | Peak Prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Chapter 23 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">When we wander over to the third E in this story \u2013 the Environment &#8211; we note two things: both the increasing demand of exponentially more resources being extracted from the ground and exponentially more waste being put back into various ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Because we are trying to assess here whether we can justify ever-increasing amounts of money and debt, for now let&#8217;s just concern ourselves with the resources we take\u00a0<em>from<\/em>\u00a0the natural world to support our global economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Oil is not the\u00a0<strong><em>only<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0essential resource that is fast becoming more expensive to produce, harder to find, or both. In fact, we see an alarming number of examples depletion of critical resources that almost exactly mirror the oil story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">First we went after the easy and or high quality stuff, then the progressively trickier, deeper and or more dilute stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The bottom line is this:\u00a0we, as a species, all over the globe, have already mined the richest ores, found the easiest energy sources, and farmed the richest soils that our Environment has to offer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article and view the video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment: Depleting Resources &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 23 | Peak Prosperity. Chapter 23 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. When we wander over to the third E in this story \u2013 the Environment &#8211; we note two things: both the increasing demand of exponentially more resources being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[174,271,1453],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-crash-course","tag-environment-2","tag-resource-depletion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}