The very first prediction in this piece is wrong: > Business as usual continues; the human population peaks at 8.5 billion, liquid fuels production remains mor

The very first prediction in this piece is wrong: > Business as usual continues; the human population peaks at 8.5 billion, liquid fuels production remains more or less level by the simple expedient of consuming an ever larger fraction of the world’s total energy output, See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consumption#/media/File:World_energy_mix.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum... But the entire piece is premised on mistaken philosophy, an irrational belief that progress has to stop for some particular (unjustified) reason.