Every American Baby Will Need...

[NNadir]

Source: The Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth

(I know I shouldn't post here, but I couldn't help myself.)

Have a happy hydrogen/electric "green" car day.

[sanatanadharma]

1. So sad. The baby (to old age) does not need all of this comsumption. Babies of the further past thrived on less earth,

So sad. The baby (to old age) does not need all of this consumption. It is the system surrounding that has metastasized such that the baby is fed industrially pureed foods made and packed and shipped around the world excessively using materials and energy and time unneeded to raise a village.

Likely there are villages with nothing to ship and needing everything shipped to them.
Certainly there are village-nations with resources who should be exporters but instead import the wealth of other nation-villages.

It takes everything spoken of in the OP and more to feed artificial-corporate-people.

The mathematics of the number of all the people on earth times the 1.37 million kilograms each compared to the total weight of the earth should tell us when we will have eaten the last rock, keeping in mind exponential growth in the world of the desired.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Something's a bit off. It seems the US organization is European

The chart uses European conventions for denoting quantities despite being copyright by the purportedly US organization. The link is to Finland.

The post throws in a vague disconnected gratuitous backhand slap at H2/electric technology.

The quantities, if they are to believed and I presume they are, ... the quantities are astonishing. Clicking the link to the PDF document, Figure 3 is overly simplistic and thus useless. I didn't go farther.

[NNadir]

3. There's nothing "vague" about the "slap."

From my perspective there is nothing more gratuitous than the idea of a "green" car.

I couldn't care less if someone objects.

If there are people who think that a large portion of material demands in the United States is disconnected from the car CULTure, I would suspect they are not well read on material issues.

[Mickju]

4. I am always happy to see one of your posts.

I would like it if you posted more often.