January 30, 2006

Echoes from the Future Wasteland

The world is running out of copper: Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Measure of Metal Supply Finds Future Shortage

We are using up this planet at a dizzying rate, condemning future generations to a life too much like that of former ones: a life spent in a world illuminated by fire, spent within the distance a person can walk, eating only what can be grown on one's own property.

Posted on January 30, 2006 09:21 AM