People never seem to learn anything from history, which results in endless silly predictions predicated on false assumptions. Malthus warned that a rising population would lead to famine as the world's food supplies could not support more people on Earth. This was when the world's population was one billion people. Today, the world's population is eight billion, and we waste half the food we produce, yet... only in the most misgoverned nations do people go hungry and that's due to civil breakdown, not shortages. Why was Malthus so very wrong? Because he failed to grasp the concept of innovation. Likewise, this rather foolish article totally ignores the fact that when a resource becomes scarce its price increases and that stimulates innovation to find (usually better and cheaper) alternatives. The Victorians agonized over the end of coal, but... people started using cheaper and more transportable oil instead. The supposed Hibbert's Peak (oil's pinnacle before declining production left us all back in the Stone Age) was another failed prediction based on false predicates. And so we can ignore this article entirely because, like its embarrassing predecessors, the author has learned nothing at all from history and knows nothing at all about basic economics.