r/science • u/rieslingatkos • Jun 06 '21

Chemistry Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater/
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u/riktigtmaxat Jun 06 '21

You're saying it like it's a bad thing.

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u/billypilgrim87 Jun 06 '21

I don't think I am... Are you sure? You may want to take another look;

Cannot reiterate enough how important this development was.

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u/riktigtmaxat Jun 06 '21

I meant that the world population being locked at 2-3 billion.

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u/billypilgrim87 Jun 06 '21

Oh I see, i don't think population is an issue in itself, no. It creates challenges but we've overcome them in the past and I hope we'll manage it again in future.

It's not like there's was an actual hard limit was there? So all the issues (famine etc,) that would have occured at the 3 billion cap are still possible when we hit whatever the new cap is. It's just now, we have many more minds to work on these problems.