The narrative of impending human overpopulation is mostly mythical. Yeah, I heard about that. Isn't most of that just sensationalism in junk science? What? How could the possibility of too many people be a myth? There are only so many natural resources? Yes and no. The concept of natural resources is a pretty misunderstood one. People tend to believe that there have always been a finite number of usable resources to which humans have had access, and that throughout the course of human history, we've been dwindling down our supply. But this is a huge oversimplification. While it's true that we do live in a finite universe, the number of resources we have access to is constantly expanding. How is that possible? Because we're constantly discovering new resources we never knew could be helpful to us in developing more efficient ways of harvesting what we already value.