Well, on the one side, you've got a Wikipedia article whose sole source is a Reason.com article from 2001. On the other side, you've got everyone who ever stud

Well, on the one side, you've got a Wikipedia article whose sole source is a Reason.com article from 2001. On the other side, you've got everyone who ever studied this issue, showing that consumption measured by any statistic at all is on a constant upward trajectory. For example, a 2019 UN report: "The Global Resources Outlook 2019 builds on this body of evidence to present the story of natural resources as they move through our economies and societies. It is a story of relentless demand and of unsustainable patterns of industrialization and development. Over the last 50 years, material extraction has tripled, with the rate of extraction accelerating since the year 2000. Newly industrializing economies are increasingly responsible for a growing share of material extraction, a situation largely due to the building of new infrastructure. Virtually none of the massive growth in materials consumption in the new millennium has taken place in the wealthiest countries; however, not much of it has taken place in the poorest countries either, which make up the group in the most urgent need of higher material living standards." -- Global Resources Outlook 2019 So, which one do you think is true, the Reason.com article from 2001 or the UN report (and every other entity that has ever studied this)?