There is a lot of things they say that are not valid. The idea that we are running out of resources in general is wrong. The Simon-Ehrlich Wager showed how wro

There is a lot of things they say that are not valid. The idea that we are running out of resources in general is wrong. The Simon-Ehrlich Wager showed how wrong this idea is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager There is an excellent book 'The Bet' about the wager. Over the course of the 20th century despite global population increasing by at least 200% and global GDP increasing even more prices of a bundle of metals decreased overall between 1900 and 2000. Since 1950 the world has extracted more than the known reserves of tin, copper, iron ore, lead and zinc and yet known reserves are bigger than in 1950! http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/NaturalResources.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/NaturalResources.html There is an energy problem. Fossil fuels are getting more expensive and anthropogenic global warming is a concern. However, Europe already has big taxes on fossil fuels. What Europe, and the rest of the developed world don't do is spend enough on researching better forms of nuclear energy. ITER and others are something, but it's not enough. A better approach would be to increase funding on energy research.