Interesting. For the record I agree with you. Resource scarcity is a looming issue and a game changer. And yet here we are... happily driving our SUV's 50 mile

Interesting. For the record I agree with you. Resource scarcity is a looming issue and a game changer. And yet here we are... happily driving our SUV's 50 miles each way to sit at a computer. (Presumably the Easter Islander that cut down the last tree didn't stop and think "gee, maybe I should have a tiny fire tonight" either.) So from the point of view of our current way of doing things I do have to say... the long term economic outlook doesn't appear so great. But there are things the "could" happen to change this. A breakthrough in energy (unlikely). A sudden loss of 2-3 billion people from the planet (sadly, more likely). A war resulting in an entirely new social order which is more efficient (or less efficient). Just a lot of factors make it hard to say what will happen.