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Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world (www.earth.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

We have enough copper for a lot more than that, depending on how far and deep we want to go

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 48 seconds ago

Well, that's a big component: how efficient / environmentally destructive is the mining?

Also, as electricity consumption in areas like China, India, Africa increases, they're going to start needing big multiples of the amount of copper used in the US/Europe/ANZ to-date.