I understand your concern based on the projections you're providing, Kees, but my reaction would be that your projections seem to assume there would be no change in the modes of resource consumption. Fossil fuels are finite as are other carbon based fuels (trees, peat, coal, etc.). If the world's population continues to grow and even grow rapidly and the population were only to vie for the ever dwindling carbon based fuels our planet has, then the logic you outline supports a problem.

My rhetorical argument is that IF alternative energy sources such as geothermal, solar and wind were utilized on a global scale, wouldn't that dramatically lessen the desire and the need for fighting over the last scraps of carbon based energy sources?

And, I would not consider myself to be an eco-minded person to be perfectly honest.

Chris L