Before revision:  We show that  the presence of environmental feedbacks, URLanisms can produce new resources in addition to depleting them, violates the global MEPP.
After revision:  We show that conducting the optimization in the space of environmental states instead of population sizes leads to a universal and transparent physical interpretation of the objective function. Specifically, the presence of environmental feedbacks, URLanisms can produce new resources in addition to depleting them, violates the global MEPP.