"The ultimate resource is the human mind." This assumption is true only as long as the basic preconditions for expansion of our industrial civilization remain constant. If the world were infinite, I would agree with you. But the simple fact is, we live on a finite planet,that is not growing any bigger. While human ingenuity has enabled us to thrive thus far, our survival depends, as with every other species, on available net energy and on the environmental preconditions of our existence: fresh water, healthy topsoil, photosynthetic biomass, and a stable climate to which the plants and insects we utterly depend on can readily adapt.

With accelerating global heating leading to the fibrillation, all over the world, of extreme droughts, floods, storms, vast wildfires, rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, massive die-offs of coral reefs and plankton (the base of the marine food chain), melting permafrost leading to a spike in atmospheric carbon we can no longer control, melting glaciers and ice caps worldwide, crashing insect populations, swarms of climate refugees, we may well be headed for overshoot and collapse sooner than we think. As biologist Lynn Margulis once observed, "Humans are an extraordinarily successful species. But extraordinarily successful species never last long." Why? Because by eliminating all predators and competitors, their population explodes until its biological support system collapses. Then they either die off, or go through a evolutionary bottleneck where only a few survive, with a gene pool whose diversity is greatly diminished.