zadoc wrote:

The earth has finite resources, which means that eventually the
human race will have to call a halt to population growth.




There are thousands of years of energy just in methane hydrate
reserves.

Then there's coal (dirty), but hundreds of years there.

Oil sand and shale, a few hundred years.

ethanol, wind, solar, no limit. The sun isn't scheduled to burn out for
another few billion years or so.