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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2656372" data-attributes="member: 3146">What kind of nonsense is that? In the intro, they said that earth had too much population to be able to sustain it so they left. Maybe there's more in the series, but the concept of running out of natural resources entirely doesn't make any sense and the contention that everyone would have died off in 500 years because there wasn't anything left makes even less sense. Even if we assume that earth (and all minable planets in the solar system) were entirely stripped of all metals and all fossil fuels were consumed (not that anyone in Serenity seemed to be using fossil fuels), and all the farmland was paved over (though obviously there was still enough to lay up stores of food for the journey to the new solar system so this was unlikely) and all the trees cut down, people have managed to survive for millenia without metal, land we would consider arable, or fossil fuels. Not that they'd have to. Surely, the people who left during the great exodus didn't take all of their stuff with them and left houses and vehicles that contained metal behind them. And, obviously, they were taking up a lot of space on the planet, so, after they left, there would have been land that could have been converted to agriculture or other uses.It's quite likely that life would be very different for anyone left behind after the exodus than before it and it's even very possible that the society would have disintegrated in the absence of so many people, but it's highly unlikely that everyone would have died because the planet was "used up." Earth is a planet not a roll of toilet paper and planets don't get used up in that sense.</blockquote>

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