Paging Robert Malthus, please come to the white courtesy telephone.
See Malthus.
When resources run out, we find other solutions. Every single time.
At least the disaster will be of Biblical proportions. I'd hate to just be wiped out by something as mundane as the 1917-18 flu epidemic.
/johnny
No, commodity prices are beginning to reflect the infinite supply of banknotes (they just keep printing more....). It's called inflation.
No problemo. Our ‘lord and savior’ Zero says he’ll lower the Earth’s temperature and ocean levels.
Pretty much the same argument as Peak Oil which did not include man’s ability to adapt and create new technologies to make use of oil not deposited in traditional oil fields.
It may come some day but it is hundreds of years off and by then necessity will have been the mother of invention once again and we will have new forms of energy etc.
Mel
They’ve been saying this since the 60s.
Enough already.
It always winds up with the populace of Western nations being urged to become celibate while the third world multiplies like jack rabbits on a sex sabbatical.
When it becomes necessary, the traditional population controls will kick in: War, famine and disease.
“The phenomenon of ever-more humans using a finite supply of natural resources cannot continue forever”
We have, literally, only scratched the surface.
I guess that would explain why we are paying people not to work.
I hear some folks may actually have successfully designed a warp drive design, and after the Great Civil War some rocket geeks will snag an old rocket and take it for a spin proving it to be a working design.
Next thing we know some interstellar species will drop in with ideas of expanding their tourism trade to other planets.
Since so far we have been nothing more than copycatting ultra evolved primates who still cannot have proper elections these other planetary folks have been just laughing their asses off watching us.
the sooner we get our shit together and eradicate, yes I mean eradicate these social assbackwardism everyone seems so fond then we can get off this over capacity rock and head elsewhere.
When you're 400% wrong... admit it already!
This guy must have Al Gore Syndrome.
What a load of crap!
It is not 7 billion people, most of whom live in abject poverty anyway, it is the few tens of millions in developed nations that are killing their economies with a mountain of debt and socialist governments.
We have peaked. Our leaders lack the will to do anything but buy votes out of the public treasury. We start wars, but for all of our might we can't seem to convincingly win them. The barbarians will only attack more frequently now, and our response will be ever more lethargic.
The disaster will be of our own making. Whatever external event will just be the background.
People who use the phrase, “ biblical proportion” probably haven’t read the bible much.
What he’s seeing is MASSIVE money printing thats going on around the world that is causing price hikes in food and commodities
You folks in the cities need to prepare for riots on a scale never seen in this country. Your “union cops” will do everything they can to protect themselves.
” For all of history except the last 200 years, the human population has been controlled via the limits of the food supply. Grantham thinks that, eventually, the same force will come into play again.”
He’s delusional - he’s also a “sustainable” envirowacko according to his bio in wikipedia.
If he took five seconds to do a bit of research he would discover that the countries that have the most available food supplies (the developed countries) are all dropping in population. Famine is no longer the result of inability to produce food but of despotic social systems.
The problem nowdays is not famine but obesity. And the best population controller has been wealth.
Like Buffet, he may be a great investor but a very poor judge of human nature. They both should stick to what they know and stay away from social policy.
At first I didn't see the "f". Translation: "forced abortions".
A fallacy. It is not the planet that supports us, it is we who use the planet to support ourselves. But of course it is much easier to feed off the gullible with an anthropomorphised planet ("Gaia").