In the 50s Lithium was used in some medicines. Now it is an important, almost essential, resource. Similarly, what we need in the future will be quite different than what we use today.
Now, lets take oil. Something that is highly prized and has had a lot of engineers and geologists looking for the stuff.
Do we have any idea how much of this resource we have? Not really.
Do we have any idea how much of this resource there is on the earth? Not at all.
(one of the biggest finds of oil is under Texas, where they thought they drilled every square mile.)
And this is something with lots and lots of effort behind it.
We couldn't make this catalog of resources even if we wanted to.
So, the first step the Venus Project outlined is pretty much in the realm of impossible.
"Similarly, what we need in the future will be quite different than what we use today"
That us the basics on which RBE us built upon. That is why it is called emergent system.
I will just repeat what I wrote above as it seems that you either completely ignored it or refuse to make an effort to understand the response.
~Assessing all planet's resources means assessing those that we are currently technologically able to assess. Not literally every single one, even including Earth's core. I think that it is logically obvious and that is what they mean but it seems that you had difficulty understanding it.~
logic wins.
I am from canada, low population, high land area, vast amounts of energy and resources (many many time what we need to satisfy everyone's needs to the fullest) yet despite this the economical model based on money and profits have kept us way below our potential living standard.
So I say congrats to logic for having written imho the best steemit article ever.
To all the non believers: eat my shorts you guys are part of the problem and only working overtime to keep the population as non-believers so you can keep profiting off of them. shame on you.
enough energy + enough resources + full automation = o human intervewntion = 0 cost
stop saying its not possible and start accounting how much of your efforts are going to the cause:
like no efforts put into the cause
like all efforts put into becoming wolves of wallstreet, corrupt sherifs, powertripping lawyers, drug dealing doctors....geeez...
Hey. Thanks for the comments!! :-)