But it bears asking: of what exactly is the Earth “exhausted”? The planet’s riches may be depleted, but they are very far from being completely spent. And in any case, the imagining of the Earth’s exhaustion occurred long before the absolute depletion of its resources was even distantly envisaged as a possibility. Which is only to say that what the Earth is really exhausted of is not its resources; what it has lost is meaning.
