Limited Resources: The End of Growth. Depleting energy reserves and increasing resource consumption by humans on the spatially and contextually limited planet Earth is a gradual, barely noticeable process. There is no unlimited influx of oil, gas, coal, and uranium. Energy is becoming scarce and increasingly expensive. Yet consumption continues to rise. How much longer can the reserves last? The author team, consisting of a geophysicist and a physicist, has analyzed the best data on the remaining raw material reserves and their uncertainties, calculating in various ways how long they might still last. This book presents the findings and contrasts them with consumption trends, depending on global societal conditions, that is, our behavior and expectations. It is not about prophecies or fearmongering. It is about existence.