>Since 1950 the world has extracted more than the known reserves of tin, copper, iron ore, lead and zinc and yet known reserves are bigger than in 1950!
So, you propose that because we keep improving extraction methods / keep finding new deposits of non-renewable resources, that these resources are infinite?
The parent is very clearly not suggesting anything of the sort.
They're pointing out that the hysteria focused on resource scarcity is unfounded, has been proven to be unfounded over and over again for the past century, and will likely continue to be shown to be unfounded for the next century.
By almost any measure, we ran out of copper a long time ago. We used to find copper in almost pure form, yet now a modern copper mine processes ore that is only a bit more than 1000 parts per million copper, which isn't a lot higher than random earth.
We're not going to run out of earth any time soon.
So, you propose that because we keep improving extraction methods / keep finding new deposits of non-renewable resources, that these resources are infinite?