Other HN users have pointed out the many outright falsehoods present in this article, so I'll just get straight to the point: This is nonsense from a fearmongering collapse blog that doesn't understand what they're trying to speak authoritatively about.
Other headlines currently present from the frontpage of this same site:
> Collapse Will Look Nothing Like the Movies
> How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable
> 2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point
Even if you find that content compelling, it's dishonesty and objective inaccuracy in which it substantiates its points suggests you shouldn't waste your time.
Perhaps we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater here? Cut through the underbrush of technical inaccuracies and you're left with a very simple core premise: our civilization is predicated on continuous growth while having only a finite pool of non-renewable resources to draw upon to achieve it. That this arrangement results in some fairly serious problems isn't really in question, so all we're really arguing about is timelines.
Other headlines currently present from the frontpage of this same site:
> Collapse Will Look Nothing Like the Movies
> How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable
> 2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point
Even if you find that content compelling, it's dishonesty and objective inaccuracy in which it substantiates its points suggests you shouldn't waste your time.