It not just could, but already did, and literally, anything mined/used and non-replenishable will peak at one point. Nature of things...
The material becomes non-minable, but it doesn't leave earth. The wealth on this planet can only grow, because the material on stays mostly on board while the energy from the sun can be harnessed to reprocess that material indefinitely. The whole concept of something being non-renewable is a dated argument. We do not live on a linear world where the goods are mined, refined, used, and then cease to exist; after they are discarded, the material is still available for reprocessing.
I should stop responding to you right here..
Or you could offer a valid refutation, but that doesn't seem to be the way you fear monger types operate.
It IS already an issue. We are using up reservoirs that will not refill or will refill very slowly...
That is true, but it's easy to remediate. It's not like leaked radioactive material that we don't have the technology to deal with; just use water catchment technologies and stop pumping out more water than gets put in. It's doesn't warrant nearly as much worry as you would lead others to believe; you're like a bad teacher I had in the second grade who told us we were running out of clean water. We weren't running out, we just weren't cleaning it because no one cared. We could easily just make more if we wanted to, it's as easy as the abundance of seawater and sunlight.
That's why we are irrigating with desalinizied water in Kansas, not.
I think it's funny how condescending you try to be without even understanding the point I was trying to make. Sure, it's running out in certain areas, but it's not like all that water is disappearing from the face of the earth, or being shipped off to China where it's locked away to methodically dehydrate the Western world. It can be replaced if need be. The question is when it becomes economically viable to do so. You greatly under estimate the robustness of the American economy... the world economy, in general, actually.
Those places you mentioned:
Caribbean: Island with small surface, not many other choices.
Arabs: shitload of oil money, they can afford it, now. Let's see 100 years from now, when the oil has ran out...
Right. The Caribs don't have another option. If we get to a point where we run out of water in the aquifers, we'll be in the same situation (I should say
you, because things in Canada are just peachy actually). If there's no water in the wells, it becomes economically viable to use desalinization. I'll stipulate to the Arab thing though, the growth there isn't as sustainable, even with all the diversification they're doing, most of them are one trick ponies (excluding the North African countries, which probably would be able to survive on agricultural production and more mining, plus a big old cheap pool of labour.
...and my OP was about the Great Plains mostly.
My point still stands.
Oh I am sure the next big war will take care of lots of my worries about overpopulation...
Annnnd that pretty much confirms my suspicion; paranoia coupled with the mild stroke of narcissism that is so prevalent among doom sayers... I bet you're one of the guys filling my youtube inbox with the "Banksters are taking over America" videos.