И на марсе будут яблони цвести

Немножко про будущее полезных ископаемых и их распределение. На голубой планете они исчерпаемы, и в той же Испании уже закончились залежи угля.

Ниже интересный отрывочек про то, как будут добываться редкоземельные и драгоценные металлы на астероидах. Сюжеты из голливудских фильмов 80х годов воплощаются в реальность.

Even if the limitless energy riches and raw materials of the cosmos can only be sought out and brought to Earth by the most powerful
states, it is in all of our interests for them to be shared. Raising living standards across the world and simultaneously reducing carbon emissions benefits everyone. Our resources here are finite and competition for them sparks conflict, but above us is an asteroid named 3554 Amun. In it are nickel, cobalt, iron and other metals with an estimated value of $20 trillion, approximately the same as the GDP of the USA. It’s one of countless many, more than enough to share.
It would be naïve to believe that the country, or company, whose spacecraft lands on such wealth will simply give it away. However, we should be working on codifying agreements whereby the spacefaring nations co-operate on projects, agree to share profits and knowledge, and set binding targets on transferring a percentage of their gains to everyone else. An example could be giant solar reflectors positioned in low orbit which bounce the sun’s energy onto solar farms when they are in darkness to enable them to run twenty-four hours a day. A percentage of the budget to build the reflectors could be committed so that developing nations received free power from this source. There are as many similar ideas as there are imaginations. It’s doable. As the sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke said, every revolutionary idea passes through three phrases
characterized by the views of its critics:
1) ‘It’ll never work – it’s pure fantasy’;
2) ‘It might work, but it’s not worth doing’;
3) ‘I said it was a good idea all along.’