Sustainability Crisis: Renewable Resources Growth Has Been Maxed Out Since 2006

[FBaggins]

8. Sigh... yet another malthusian knee-jerk

Show a malthusian a graph of any resource or commodity that hits a new high and then retreats... and he'll tell you why that was actually a "peak" that represents an immutable maximum. It hasn't fallen because of falling demand caused by global economic weakness... it's because we've hit the limit for how much can be produced and it's all downhill from here.

When new highs are put in a few yeas later, he insists that he wasn't "wrong"... he was "early" and the new high is just even more unsustainable production that will make the eventual collapse that much worse.

And in this case it isn't even always an actual decline... just a decline in the rate of growth. Which, to the malthusian, is just as good as proving a peak - since the only contrary position that they'll admit exists is a "cornucopian" strawman that believes in only exponential growth without limits.