What is the maximum possible wealth of the Earth (i.e how much money can u make from the Earth's resources?

Answer 1

The question is misguided. The vast majority of wealth is produced by human labor and has relatively little to do with Earth's resources. About 70% of what any industrialized nation consumes today is services, and this proportion has been steadily increasing over time...

Answer 2

I'm not sure but its been estimated that the resource wealth of the asteroid belt is enough to make a hundred trillion people multi-billionaires.

Basically, the earth's resources are not the limit on human wealth & sustainability.

Answer 3

Well, let's say (just for the purposes of answering the question) that we all can use resources as efficiently as J.K. Rowling. She's made several zillion dollars using a PC and some electricity to write a bunch of books about some teenage wizards. So, multiplying by the amount of resources on the Earth, we get...

Hmm... Just a minute, I'm getting an overflow in my spreadsheet...

I'll try to work this out on a sheet of paper, and get back to you...

Answer 4

You wont be able to quantify that. Just imagine this, people are making profit out of ice berg, they bottle ice berg who would have thought of that 100 years ago. soon people would profit from salt water in large scale. Now there are people profiting from it by desalinating it. And what about this, ordinary wild grass can be harvested to make it to paper.so how can you quantify wealth when wealth grows infinitely?

Like fish, if you don't kill all the mother fishes you have fish that will procreate forever, plants grow and dies but you can plant another well before the other dies. see? so the question of maximum possible wealth has only one answer, it's infinitum. boundless, no limit.

Answer 5

Interesting question. I don't think there really is an absolute limit. I think this question is a good way to start thinking about what "wealth" really means.

Answer 6

no limit.