Disaster stories sell papers, but the situation is not a disaster story. Rather it is the standard plot for development of new things. People see possible scarc

Disaster stories sell papers, but the situation is not a disaster story. Rather it is the standard plot for development of new things. People see possible scarcity and react accordingly, far in advance of the non-specialists of the press figuring it out. The scientific community is and has been responding well to the threat of running out of antibiotics. In particular, new advances in mining the bacterial world - a 100-fold enhancement in that mining - mean that we'll be flooded with many new antibiotic drug candidates in the years ahead. For example, see: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26701 https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26701 http://www.popsci.com/ichip-new-way-find-antibiotics-and-other-key-drugs http://www.popsci.com/ichip-new-way-find-antibiotics-and-oth... Antibiotics Malthusianism has the same problem as all other forms of Malthusianism, which is that people work to fix the problems they see arising in the future, and resources are far from static as a result.