Of course, I only wanted to argue that ongoing growth is fundamentally not an option, I did not want to argue that this is actually the scenario we are heading towards. At worst growth would just stop once we hit resource limits, which may of course be a very unpleasant experience.

But I totally agree with you that it does not look like population growth will become an issue. Ressource consumption per capita may be a different story, it will take quite some additional resources to bring the entire current world population to first world standards.