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Re:Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes by tim333 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:45AM (#17875587)
Malthus's ideas was something different - that people will breed till they run out of food which basically hasn't happened.

People think of different things with peak oil. At the basic level production will peak - with a finite resource you can't keep increasing extraction for ever. On the other hand people sometimes link it to running out of oil which probably won't happen - instead we'll move to renewables because they will be cheaper and greener.

Re:Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes by provolone on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:02AM (#17876303)
Just as Malthus observed that the land in the British Isles was a finite resource. Malthusianism is a trope in macroeconomics.