Same idiots that told me in 1990 in college with a straight face that the planet would “be OUT of OIL by 2010”. I knew it was horeses-—t then. They never grasped the economic difference between “proven”, “known”, and “theoretical” reserves. Prices take care of “known” and better technology (frakking, hemispherical drilling, etc.) turns a lot of theoretical into prove or known. I have not listened to dumb ass environmentalists or paid attention to their linear math dumb ass models either since then.
A local eco guy had license plates ...PEAK OIL
And Chicago was supposed to be under a mile of Ice by now due to THE COMING ICE AGE hysteria of the 1970s!
They said the same thing in ‘75 when I was in HS.
Scared so many young they stopped planning for future.