depletion

Is there hard evidence that this is bad?Resource depletion is among the highest risks to civilization.

Similar to urandom but * with the goal of minimal entropy pool depletion.

The shocking depletion of the world's fisheries over the last century and a half is one of the great tragedies of our modern civilization.

And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue

A few years later, overfishing led to near-depletion of the local supply, and new restrictions were implemented on fishing licenses.

The Rayleigh process describes the continous depletion of a reservoir through a fractionationing process - evaporation.

As many people posted here, the situation's combination of adrenaline and seratonin depletion gets people into some pretty seriously fucked mental states that causes odd group dynamics.

I did not get the impression that kevinalexbrown was claiming that depression is caused by depletion of synapses, but rather summarizing for the record that this is the model suggested by the observed effectiveness of ketamine.

What if increasing population, increasing automation, and natural resource depletion mean that natural resources and land become the predominant rate limiting factor holding back the economy, rather than human labour?

My worry is that the QOL improvements you cite seem largely based on depletion of capital stocks: Fossil fuel reserves, topsoil, fish stocks, aquifers, forests, uncultivated land are all being used far beyond their replenishment ratesWhat if all the progress we've built is not built on any solid foundation?