• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    You appear to be severely misunderstanding the source. You may want to take the time to read through it again.

    Also, did you think we checked each and every resource we industrialised to make sure we had a few millenia worth before we started using them? Last I heard, our known lithium resources are only sufficient for a decade or two at current rates, never mind the increasing usage.

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      24 hours ago

      Are you asking if we did smart things before we began exploiting resources? Because the answer is no, never. Not once.

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        23 hours ago

        You’re missing the point, which is that we don’t normally measure reserves in centuries. We prospect as needed, and there is no reason to think that we would be unable to locate new deposits as necessary. All this and more is covered in the source you linked.