I love it when people think that trotting out the Second Law of Thermodynamics is some kind of scientamific trump card.

The Second Law applies to closed systems.

The Earth is not a closed system.

(Now as per the patented Clownfish Drinking Game, I do believe I have to drop my trousers and run around the room ;) )

Oh, and Divergence - 3 years does not make a long-term trend. That was my original point, back in the dim, dark days of 2008. Ehrlich has been wrong for over 40 years. Blindly asserting that he was right, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, indeed smacks of the same unthinking dogmatism as Camping's followers.

Plus we do have at least one alternative to oil - shale gas. There are others already at hand - such as nuclear - and I have no doubt others will rise from the wellspring of human creativity.

The Stone Age, as the saying goes, did not end for lack of stones.