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🔥 The Greenletter Club is 100% independent, to help us, it's here 👉 https://bit.ly/3ppLx68 The consumption of resources is exploding while deposits are less and less concentrated. Hence this question: is there a risk of a global shortage? Is the global economy at risk of collapsing? To answer it, we welcome Philippe Bihouix, engineer, specialist in mineral resources, authors in particular of the age of low tech, and of the comic strip resources, a challenge for humanity with Vincent Perriot. Interview conducted by Maxime Thuillez recorded at the Climate Academy. Presentation in 2019, by Jeff Bezos: • Blue Origin 2019: For the Benefit of ... CHAPTERS 00:00 - excerpts 01:32 - the conrnucopians 07:25 - Billionaires' faith in progress 09:24 - Musk & Bezos' promises 20:43 - Rationing VS space conquest 27:41 - Belief in growth 34:54 - A peak in resources? 44:21 - The waste of metals 47:02 - More metals for our children? 54:21 - Metallic globalization 55:07 - The ravages of metals 01:05:35 - Sobriety 01:07:47 - Technodiscernment - the revenge of low-tech? In this interview, Philippe Bihouix questions the vision of the cornucopians, supporters of infinite economic growth. The energy peak may in turn lead to a resource peak. Metals could be in short supply in the near future: copper, lithium, cobalt; the most essential of our technologies depend on a few materials. Can low-techs respond to this headlong rush of technology? In this 128th interview of the Greenletter Club, Philippe Bihouix returns to peak oil, EROI, the promises of American tech gurus like Musk or Jeff Bezos, their faith in progress, their space ambitions, and the material constraint that they... forget. The climate, ecology and the resource crisis seem completely forgotten, these problems being swept under the carpet of future technological progress. Are low-techs the solutions? Why could the global economy collapse due to a lack of resources? Philippe Bihouix analyzes the dependence of the global economy on different resources, particularly minerals. His analysis leads to a simple observation: our material situation is untenable and could collapse the global economy as we know it today.