Would it be fair to say that not all their possible outcomes were doom and gloom but that the media seized on that because it gets the most attention? That bei

Would it be fair to say that not all their possible outcomes were doom and gloom but that the media seized on that because it gets the most attention? That being said... we do know that infinite exponential growth of an economy in a finite bounded space is not possible. Eventually it must either plateau or crash. We hope it plateaus. There are some positive signs in this area including most notably the decline of birth rates with development but there is no guarantee those trends will not reverse. "Infinite" exponential growth at the scale of the universe might be possible, but the distances between even planets (e.g. Earth and Mars) make separate economies at that scale more or less separate systems. We could colonize Mars and continue growth there until that either crashes or plateaus, but that would not impact the growth model of Earth very much.