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Ed Conway goes looking for materials we have run out of—and retires the series after one post, because he can't find any.
Never underestimate elasticity of supply!
https://edconway.substack.com/p/hang-on-are-there-any-lost-minerals
“… in trying to hunt around for minerals we have run out of, I came to an unexpected conclusion. So far, we haven’t really, meaningfully run out of, well, pretty much anything. …
“… while we like to tell ourselves humankind has exhausted this or that resource, we are much better at talking about it than actually, well, exhausting said resource.”
He's turning his “lost materials” series into “forgotten materials,” which “will focus on the minerals we are still extracting (in some cases in record amounts) even though most people thought we stopped doing it long ago.” 1 reply
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