Duh!

“Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), told a conference in Barcelona last week: “From a world of seemingly unlimited resources, mankind is gradually accustoming itself to the Earth as a limited, crowded and finite space, with limited resources for extraction and a narrowing capacity for waste disposal of pollution.”
Mr Trichet argued that the economics of this new world were “increasingly pushing at the boundaries of development” and required new thinking.”