This article, while interesting, is like reading a weather forecast that says &quot;there might be a big storm at the end of the week, but there might not&quot;. The idea that the population can&#x27;t keep on growing exponentially and using ever more resources has been around since ancient Greece at least.<p>I&#x27;m sure that if we were able to look at long term economic stats for the last 2 millennia, there would be graphs that looked very similar to those in this article.<p>Of course, one day the population and our use of resources has to stop growing, but I doubt we&#x27;ll see it coming 100 years in advance.