Denying Problems When We Don’t Like the Solutions (perhaps somewhat off-topic)

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21. Here is a look at a set of various raw materials and energy, with population growth

The consumption growth of all these raw materials and energy, since 1980, has outpaced population growth.

What's interesting is that the world consumption of steel was pretty stable until 2001 when China began their Great Leap Forward, Version 2.0. To me the this implies that much of the additional consumption growth is probably occurring in developing nations that are trying to get their piece of the pie.

So the world population is still growing at ~77 million per year (despite falling fertility rates) and the consumption of raw materials and energy is growing even faster than the population. That looks to me like "ongoing growth", no matter how you spin it.