Metal Reserves

Sciam predicted humanity would totally run out of Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver before 1990, copper around 2000.

Scientific American published a chart quoting Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990. We have far more today than we had in 1970.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-12-24

This was for Earthday 1970 -- but the point is this passed their Scientific/Editorial quality controls. You can go through the whole magazine and it was a complete shitshow of failed malthusian predictions.

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Scientific American
A left biased popular "Science" magazine that occasionally lets a good article or two past their woke staff.

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Reason: Happy Earth Day! Simon Abundance Index Reports That Earth Is 570.9 Percent More Abundant in 2019 Than It Was in 1980.
Scientific American: September, 1970 - Earth Day. Entire Magazine is worth a read on how craptastically wrong they were on everything

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