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I expect in a generation, one of the most astonishing wastes of resources people will object to from this time period is that we pumped party balloons and parade floats full of helium.
Helium is one of the most nonrenewable resources on the planet. If you release in into the air, it escapes Earth's gravity and is lost to space forever.

It also has a number of serious applications, from particle accelerators to MRI scanners to regulating fuel in spaceflight.
Think about that as you watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In the future, many people may not get noninvasive cancer screening and many satellites may not be launched so you can look at Charlie Brown and SpongeBob SquarePants floating over Manhattan.
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