The rapidly increasing demand for copper for electronic devices, electric vehicles, and energy infrastructure may lead to shortages in the next decade, with the mainstream media now acknowledging this.
I summarized the mentality that has neglected what to me was an obvious emerging problem in [A reader] insists that indium simply can't be that scarce because--get this--there is indium in billions of electronic devices including cellphones and computer screens, in fact, in nearly everything that has a flat-screen display associated with it.
I realized later that what this computer professional actually meant was that the corporate and government planners charged with thinking about resource supply issues couldn't possibly have made a colossal blunder which would lead to a catastrophic shortage of key metals in the electronics industry. He presumed, I think, that such an outcome was simply out of the question given the competence and intelligence of the people in his industry.
Of course, the long-running denial about limits is what has gotten us to this point. We won't get a do-over. We will just have to stumble forward from here. And, that is what I expect, a lot of stumbling. There will be finger-pointing and excuses and even recriminations against anyone who can be labeled an"environmentalist" . But there will be almost no talk of egregiously bad planning and wildly optimistic cornucopian assumptions.
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