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Michial Gunter says (of mineral reserves) that we always manage to find
more and that today's reserves are higher than they've ever been, despite
cries of alarm for two centuries.

This is correct. Additionally, as reserves become scarcer, the price
rises and conservation and substitution automatically take place,
at least in a free market system, thus further extending the life
of the reserve base and finding new ways to do the tasks.

Those who cry Malthus are simple economic ignoramuses, and those
who have followed them in and out of government are gullible
simps or worse.

But these prophets of doom with an agenda never learn. The Club
of Rome crowd is still going strong; the Meadows have a new book out,
and in general there's a sucker born every minute, particularly
in the legislatures.

Those sincerely concerned about the future of the earth quietly
educate to alternatives, substitutes, and conservation to assist the
market process go where it wants to go anyway, and remove barriers to
needed and wanted change. One of the best is my friend Amory Lovins,
of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Old Snowmass, Colorado. He's also
written several very useful books and is retained by many major
corporations and other serious organizations.