What will happen to the earth once all the oil, natural gas, coal, diamonds, gold etc have been taken out?

August 17th, 2009 by admin | Filed under Earth Sciences & Geology.
mongoose_gurl asked:


Surely the earth was made with all those elements in it for a reason. Will the earth just crumble in on itself because of all the hollow cavities left behind? There’s going to be nothing left of it because man’s just taking it all out and not worrying about the consequences. I’m very worried about our future generation because in a 100 years our kids kids are probably gonna be living on Mars, where there won’t be trees, animals and all the other earthly things that we take for granted. I reckon what man has done to the earth is one of the main causes why all these natural disasters are happening more frequently, cos the earth is trying to shake us off so it can try heal itself (if that’s even still possible at this stage!?), not to mention all the polution etc. HELP SAVE THE EARTH!!

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6 Responses to “What will happen to the earth once all the oil, natural gas, coal, diamonds, gold etc have been taken out?”

  1. Colin C | 19/08/09

    Have no worries, the earth is made up of more than just the items you listed. Once those resources are gone, well there gone, the earth will still be here.

  2. Bart S | 20/08/09

    It will pop like a balloon!

  3. motherchild | 21/08/09

    Watch the movie “Mad Max” with Mel Gibson. It should give you an idea of what life will be like then. I know what you mean though.

  4. Joshua K | 21/08/09

    it will simply disintigrate and move around like all other debris in the universe, while humans would move to another planet

  5. amiram a | 25/08/09

    the things we should worry about are clean water and air, healthy environment, WMD, overpopulation. there will be a replacement for the natural resources you mentioned.
    Before we learn how to live away from earth we should learn how to preserve what we have now, or we’ll never get to these places away from earth but die here.

  6. King Kobra | 28/08/09

    Then this would one screwed planet! Up ….creek without a pattle. Atleast the Aliens will get the leftovers though.