Ahmed wrote:The impasse before which we find ourselves results less from an exhaustion of resources * than from the accumulation of internal contradictions in the system, its impossibility to persist in its being, our blindness to want it and our inability to demonstrate imagination to get out.
Resource depletion is a form of subjectivity hardly different from the concept of pollution.
This key concepts of contemporary ecology, widely used in the arguments of any environmentalist worthy of the name is in my opinion a dangerous rhetoric, or at best ineffective.
The reasoning scheme abandons the philosophical aspect in favor of a quantified assessment, in short it consists in conceding the ground to economism.
The danger of this approach results in the inability to foresee a major qualitative leap.
For example, the depletion of resources is from a physical point of view only a virtual barrier.
It is only in the energy-economic context (sorry for the term!) As long as our resources are limited.
If thermonuclear fusion is under control, our ability to extract deeper and further (on the moon?) Or even transmute materials will effectively annihilate this argument.
The same remark can be applied to GMOs, if in 20 years the overall balance is positive, the health argument will be quickly swept away, and we will then consume GMOs ...