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> Are you not asking of me a much higher degree of rigour than the Club of Rome demonstrated?

I was mostly asking about details of what exact points you said they were wrong about.

> The simplest: No exhaustible has been depleted yet. See table 4. [...] Gold, mercury, silver were predicted to be exhausted by 2017. None are.

Indeed. Thanks! Though I should add that these tables are not based on their system simulation, but simply on known reserves and know rates of consumption at the time.




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