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[quote=SoccerfreakAB2]That's absolute bullshit. Whole civilizations, the Anasazi, the Mayan, Easter Island, Mangreva, etc. have died out because of scarce resources.

Before money, there was also a far greater amount of resources worldwide to begin with anyways. Before money, there wasn't 6.5 billion people on the planet. Scarcity is around the corner, but by the time it really hits, about the same time we hit 10 billion people, I'll be dying off anyways, so if no one cares now, neither do I. BUT, it does exist and will be a major issue and already is in many undeveloped nations, contradictory to the common notion that only developed nations have the worst environments. That is a false misconception.[/QUOTE

Nobody knows what happend to the Anasazi or the people on Easter Island and other civilisations that died out did so becaused they refused to leave there home when nature dictated it was time to move on so your statment is speculative, The Mayans were mostly obliterated by the Catholics during their expansion into the "New World".
As far as your belief that rescorces were greater before money that is misleading. When the pilgrims landed in America there was fewer wildlife populations then than there is now due to conservation. While it is true the buffalo were almost wiped out they now have grown to a very large population. Other species that have disappeard before conservation practices were implemented is unfortunate but we have survived without them and maybe our existance is less enjoyable without them but none the less species come and go so why should ours be any different? We are animals too.