Ask all you want!

I will start with a disclaimer that many of you know already. I am a geologist, an earth scientist. I understand and work in extraction (which is a bad word) of a particular natural resource, Oil & Gas, yes it is two, but we combine them as one because for all practical purposes, they are just two different phase, like Ice and Water. When we talk about natural resources, they are non-renewables mostly, and they are from planet earth. Like it or not, we understand and study the planet earth:) Lot of people often forget that. Lot of people often also forget that we have children too, just like you; and we also expect our children to be alive and thrive, after we are gone from this planet, just like you. So, we the earth scientists, want clean air and clear water, just like you do, and with we due respect, we in fact know how to do it, as opposed to many of you who can only point to the problem and can't provide a solution. That is okay, we don't mind. I can't find a solution to why exactly Neutron Stars have formed, I rely on an Astrophysicist to tell me that! :)

With that background and digression out of the way, let us focus on the current topic. I got the idea of the current post from a comment michealb. He was correctly trying to educate me on people's ability to ask whatever they want, and I shouldn't try and dictate them. He is correct off course. However, I am also a dad of two kids, and they are asking me for all sorts of things all the time. Do I give them all they want? Can I?

That brings me to two Financial and Economic theories: both are very close to my heart.

Scarcity of Resources: The fundamental economic principle of scarcity states that human wants are unlimited, but the resources available to satisfy them are limited. This creates inherent limitations on what can be achieved or acquired.

Social Constraints: Societal norms, laws, and ethical considerations can also limit individual desires and their pursuit. Demanding behavior, especially when it infringes on the rights or well-being of others, can lead to negative consequences.

Above are the current projections of availability of four most common or relevant natural resource for today, in the four most consumption heavy countries: Water, Fossil Fuels, REE (for you TESLA drivers, and green energy folks), and Forests. Without getting into the details, you might observe that the projections are near linear. Yes, their rates are different in different countries, but it is a given that we will have less natural resources (yes both Fossil Fuels and REEs) in 2050 compared to today. People often don't get it. Just because you will drive a Tesla, doesn't mean you consume less natural resources that are non-renewable. In fact, those REEs that you will consume, a lot of them are open-cast mines in some countries where environmental regulations are much less restrictive. Also if you bring more restriction, your cost of that Tesla or that Solar Panel goes up. Full Disclosure: I have roof-top Solar Panel and TESLA powerwall both! :)

My point is, just because you switch from one resource to the other, the problem doesn't disappear. You just have moved it from one box to the other.

This is energy consumption in exajoules (EJ), and again this trend is linear and up:) There is no way that this trend can reverse unless we get hit by a meteor! :) Oh, sorry, 1 exajoule = 10¹⁸ joules. Sorry again, that is about....let me think...

• The energy content of about 170 million barrels of oil.
• The electricity used by about 26 millions of households in a year

Hope this helps:)

Social Constraints

Yes, I can't tell you that you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't say that. Or this proposal can not pass or shouldn't pass. You might have a desire to do certain thing for hive ecosystem and/or SL ecosystem. You also might have positive intent. You really believe that you will do good thing and your project is the right one and is better than that other thing that we are proposing or perhaps we the stakeholders are proposing do nothing! But just because I am saying NO, doesn't make me a bad person, or you saying YES, doesn't make you a good person.

You may have the best intent, but it could be the fact that we ain't have the money! What you say to that?

In social network, Code is NOT the law. Social interactions are the law. There are intangible things and benefits in social network that you can't explain by code. Please consider respecting that. Your social interaction with me does have consequences. You may deny it, or I may overlook it, but it does exist. It may not surface today, but it will surface some other day, trust me, that is social network.