Anyone remember peak oil? What happened?
"Ebola is spreading at an exponential rate. There will be 200 million deaths by next year."
"Soviet GDP is growing 10% per year. Their economy will be the largest in the world in 15 years."
"Japanese GDP is growing 7% per year. Their economy will be the largest in the world in 20 years."
"The world's population increases at 2% per year. We'll have 50 billion people in 2100."
I also think that if there is a reinforcing temperature feedback loop, this isn't likely to happen to happen fast enough--at least through behavior changes. So we should focus most of our resources on developing better methods of energy production, increasing energy efficiency, and developing technology/methods to mitigate the damage of rising temperatures to human civilization.
Due to a combination of technological ingenuity and externalities in the form of current and future environmental degradation, we've been able to so far avoid the point where oil cannot be profitably produced for a price that consumers can afford to pay.