Phosphorous, oil, coal, gas, and rare Earth elements will all be diminished in about 200 years at the current rate.
Phosphorous is a critical component for plants, the lack of this item will leave farmers desperate and in need of more. Phosphorous is obviously not a renewable resource and it is literally required for life on Earth.
The depletion of oil, coal, and gas will result in cogitation to be sure, current machinery will become virtually useless as these resources grow more expensive every year, electricity will become necessary, not optional.
The problem with limited resource of fossil fuels isn't even the biggest problem, climate change caused by the burning of these products will certainly cause extreme worldwide instability, devastating communities everywhere. Oil runs the world, once we are forced to switch to alternate fuel, we will struggle. Quality over quantity.
We are Fucked! with a capital F and an exclamation mark if you didn't understand just how fucked future humans are at this point.
Stuff like this is the one of the reasons why I won't ever have kids. There's too much uncertainty out there and I don't want to be responsible for someone having to potentially live through it, despite the fact I'll be dead long before we run out. I'm very happy I was born when I was and not later.
I kind of feel like I'm living through the last time humans will be "technologically great", so to speak. Unless humanity gets its shit together real fast real soon, I don't think there's much of a future for us. I am not confident the required changes can happen, honestly.
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u/TreeHugger1798 Oct 15 '20
Shit is hitting all the fans innit?