{"id":3968,"date":"2022-04-05T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:19:58","slug":"plot-twist-the-earth-is-finite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/04\/plot-twist-the-earth-is-finite\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot twist, the earth is finite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cResources are not limited. Only human knowledge is limited.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I see where it\u2019s coming from: human beings have been pushing so hard for so long. Sometimes it does seem that we do not have any limit. Who would have thought WiFi would be a thing \u2013wireless computer network when you need one cable to be connected?- AND be so ubiquitous in the early stages of the internet mid 90s? Not a single soul. Wireless data transfer sounded like goddamn science-fiction. We\u2019re amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, our world is finite. There\u2019s something, at some point, that just blocks us. Earth\u2019s gravity. Oil supply. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_frequency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio frequency<\/a>. I know, humans are absolutely fabulous at squeezing shit out. Moore\u2019s law is kind of dead but we\u2019re still hitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2_nm_process\">2nm<\/a> process by uh, squeezing again. And lying (the process is not really 2nm).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the whole point this <a href=\"https:\/\/tokcast-bretthall-31ddc0.netlify.app\/2022\/03\/are-we-running-out-of-resources\/\">article ignores<\/a>: <strong>humanity has been squeezing everything for the past few decades<\/strong>. The squeezing has become harder and harder if not totally impossible by now. We\u2019re squeezing so much, we have to lie now. <em>Fracking is good! Slavery in Congo or China to make batteries for our devices doesn\u2019t exist!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a good sign for the next twenty years, at all.<\/p>\n<p>People just don\u2019t get how much bigger our global economy is compared to twenty years ago, and how exponential our resources digging has gone. We\u2019re gargantuans eating this planet and ourselves alive.<\/p>\n<p>Now grown folks seriously talking about <em>\u201cit\u2019s fine, we\u2019ll mine the rest of the galaxy then\u201d<\/em> when space is the most hostile environment ever? I mean. Sure, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>&quot;fuck it we&#8217;ll figure it out later (when I&#8217;m dead)&quot;<\/em> argument from very smart people makes me think that they\u2019re not very smart people. Frustrating because they\u2019re running us into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Earth demands that we consume less and redistribute better. The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cResources are not limited. Only human knowledge is limited.\u201d I see where it\u2019s coming from: human beings have been pushing so hard for so long. Sometimes it does seem that we do not have any limit. Who would have thought WiFi would be a thing \u2013wireless computer network when you need one cable to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}