Things the world is running out of...

[HunterNurturer]

More like 60 million will starve as TSHTF..

Anyway in relation to an earlier post:- the price of copper will not become too expensive to manufacture cable, as then the producers & suppliers would be out of business. It is like oil in marketry.. Another thing - resouces like copper etc are more available than you would think. A hell of a lot of these resorces is still around to be recycled. At the moment it is a capatalist culture of fast money by aquiring new produced resources and turning them into an oversupply of consumer goods. If the new mined source becomes more scarce/costly, then recycling will become even bigger business. Society will have to look at ways of reclaiming a wider spectrum of materials from a wider spectrum of obselete goods. Obviously the price will go up and the oversupply model will be squeezed, but we will not run out of resources like copper, we will just have to use the massive amount already artificially deposited in the environment to a cleverer more efficient degree.

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Spelling mistak x2- "resources". Typing too fast and craply.lol

That's the point, they will go out of business because it will get too expensive to be used in wiring. Why don't we use silver for wiring? Because it's too damn expensive, even though it has higher conductivity. If you read the original post you'd see I didn't say we'd run of copper, but we don't need to for it to cause a big problem ie. nobody can afford to buy copper wiring anymore, manufacturers can't afford to put it in their electrical products anymore and are forced to use less efficient metals. Think of the cost and time of changing the way every electricity based appliance fundamentally works... we're not giving up on electricity any time soon so demand is only going to keep growing.