In my opinion, contrary to environmentalists' beliefs, Earth is still far from running out of resources. Many things like trees, animals, plants, and certain energy generating methods are renewable, so we will likely not run out of them. I also think that if the situation becomes desperate enough, or in any case, we will eventually live amongst the stars. In the next few billion years, Earth will eventually become uninhabitable. We will probably settle Mars first, but eventually abandon the Solar System for more habitable worlds. If we ever invent light-speed or faster-than-light travel, both of which are unlikely, we will be able to colonize nearby stars in less than a hundred years. While it seems simple at first, eventually hydrogen will run out for stars in the next trillion years, and most stars will die off. By then life will become significantly harder, as we will need to rely entirely on methods like fission and artificial fusion to power anything. While we will, if we do well, survive for the next several trillion years, after then it will get nearly impossible to live regularly. Doing anything at this point, although it helps, is pretty much futile and just delaying our eventual fate as nothing more than entropic energy floating around the universe, or trapped within a black hole.
Man, the future is depressing.
Do you believe that extraterrestrial life exists, whether intelligent or in microbial form?
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