No one seems to want to mention that we have added 100 million people to ur population since 1970 and will add another 167 million people by 2060. Immigration, legal and illegal, are driving about 75% of this population growth. The idea that we can go from a nation of 200 million in 1970 to a nation of almost half a billion in less than 100 years without impacting on our energy needs is just nonsense. We are going to have to run just to standstill.
we have added 100 million people to our population since 1970 and will add another 167 million people by 2060Exactly, and IMHO the number by 2100 will be much higher even than that. The solution advocated by the malthusians is "live simply, so others may simply live", an approach that leads to poverty, darkness, disease, and death. And of course, makes everyone into peasants.