Great post. Thanks. Won't be read or believed by many since it is not conventional wisdom.
LOL...that's why I've had trouble making myself heard where it counts for so many years. However, it's absolutely true. If any don't believe me, I know a good taxidermist who might sell them some nice lynx hair at a reasonable price ;-)
true. Though not mentioned above, Julian Simon's "Ultimate Resource" books 1 & 2, especially 2; handily explain why Hubbert and all the other 'zero-growth' energy-heads are wrong - in a nutshell, human ingenuity, technology and the free market are what make the difference.
To which I humbly add that we humans are predictably so prone to hubris, assuming that our present level of knowledge - being the accumulation of all these centuries of accumulation/seduced by our apparent superiority as evidenced by our inexorable progress - is always the end and be all of everything. Including disregarding the simplest fact in any discussion regarding resources - that we've only merely scratched the surface of the planet in our attempts to extract what we need.