These observations about the finiteness of easily accessible, local, secure fossil fuels, is a motivation for saying, Well, what's next?

In November 1967, Ambassador Arvid Pardo of Malta called for a new legal status for the international seabed on the basis of justice among States and recognition of the finiteness of resources.

The only way to overcome the finiteness of our world is to maintain as much space as possible between entropy and history by investing in education and research aimed at increasing renewable energies, reducing the energy intensity of our standards of living, and slowing the pace of environmental erosion.