“Already the world is running out of cheap and high quality sources of some essential materials such as oil, copper and gold, the supplies of which, in turn, require ever-rising volumes of fossil fuels and freshwater to produce…”
The Malthusian voice of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has delivered one more sermon about how the world is going to run out of critical resources, thanks to rising global standards of living and the increasing world population.
The latest sermon is titled “Decoupling: natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth.” It runs about 180 pages in length, for those with the patience to read the whole thing. This sermon concludes, as they always do, with demands for governments to nudge citizens to accept the need to live with less.
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