You’ve heard it before – we are running out of stuff. Peak oil, peak food, peak xyz.
Resource consumption generally follows a bell curve, where we increasingly consume something until we can’t consume it any faster, and then we start to run out of it and its use declines just as rapidly. All this is of course driven by finite resources and supply & demand.
Here are some visuals:
This is the U.S. oil price chart over the last 20 years. I would’ve preferred to put the coal price chart instead of the oil one, but I think the increase is too intense to fit on this page.
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