Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
Resources are decreasing, but finally we're making new ways to get existing ones. Sure, solar / wind etc are only 1% of the energy market, but the only reason it's not everywhere is the cost factor.
Perhaps, but the reality is that its only 1% (your number) I concede no future is certain, but there are likely scenarios, and your !% figure lends credence to a more dyer one.

Unless of course you see some evidence of India and China (the majority populations) of moving toward alternative fuel sources in 10-20 years?

And food. The number of times we were going to run out is legion. Somehow we always seem to increase production; and in terms of total land usage there's one hell of a lot os spare capacity.
I'll concede on this point and agree, with the cavaet that the land wont be usable if its a 100 degree's daily (not to mention floods, fires and all the other wonderments of global warming symptoms)

And to assume that we've done everything and been everywhere is extremely arrogant.
Now now, you know how pissy I get when members call me names.

The rate of innovations is increasing, not decreasing. Surely if we were nearly "there" we'd be running out of things to do, or be running up against more and more insurmountable problems.
Okay, innovation is increasing. So is resource consumption (you admitted it yourself) yet the undefined element in this discussion is the environmental factors for Humans. Your scenario is rosey, assuming the environment dosent change.

How many died in the floods in the UK this year? How many in paris died from heat 2 years ago? In the states the midwest is underwater again, and fires dot the west coast.

Have you taken the environmental factor into your equation?