The problems of “peak oil” and “peak lithium” and “peak phosphorus” and “peak” anything else you can think of are solved by the magic of “economics”.
As demand grows, as supplies of something become harder to get, the price goes up. This encourages people to go farther afield to find more, and it encourages people to find alternatives. The higher price is an incentive to inventors and entrepreneurs and its an incentive to folks like us to find another way.
You don’t have to do anything except follow the logic of the situation. No government mandate needed, no government grandee to tell you to do what you would do anyway without him.
Its funny. If an oil company charges $4 a gallon for gasoline because they are having to go farther to get it, thats bad. If government adds a buck tax to $3 gasoline to encourage you to look for alternatives, somehow thats good.
No. If supplies get harder to get, it’ll go to $4 or $6 a gallon, and people will invent and invest and they’ll come up with alternatives without anyone to tell them to.
“If supplies get harder to get, it’ll go to $4 or $6 a gallon, and people will invent and invest and they’ll come up with alternatives without anyone to tell them to.”
Exactamundo!!
Capitalism is the ultimate sustainable system!
Never underestimate people’s resourcefulness and creativity when they are free.
That is, of course, if the government allows you to do it. The problem isn't what govt. mandates as much as what it limits.
And big government will bury them with taxes and environmental impact statements so thoroughly that the alternatives never get done.
When you live under an oppressive nanny state, you forget what it was like to live without one.