All of this makes "World3" / "The Limits to Growth" unpleasantly too prophetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

All of this makes "World3" / "The Limits to Growth" unpleasantly too prophetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth > The simplest useful view of this system is that land and fertilizer are used for farming, and more of either will produce more food. In the context of the model, since land is finite, and industrial output required to produce fertilizer and other agricultural inputs can not keep up with demand, there necessarily will be a food collapse at some point in the future. Another French academic (can't recall his name) gave a recent presentation explaining that our ability to harvest energy is growing slower than our development of new energy resource. This would also inevitably lead to food collapse.