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Do you think it’s a good idea to invest based on resources which will become scarce in the future?

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May 6, 2026 · 08:37

Hey guys!

I have been doing a lot of reading recently with the Strait of Hormuz situation and the oil price hikes (have exams coming up but I can’t get this off my mind)

And that’s when I realised that, aside from oil, there are a lot more resources that will (not may, will) surely become scarce in the future. So, along with AI, I have a list of them :

1) Water
2) Computing (for AI)
3) Semiconductors
4) Nuclear power
5) electrical energy
6) rare earth metals
7) rare gases (helium)

So with this in mind, do you think it’s a good idea to invest for the long term in stocks/funds which will benefit from a scarcity in these resources? Or are there other resources that can become scarce which I may have missed out on?

Thanks in advance for your inputs!