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BS alert - 'The first problem is the noncontrivertible fact that many crucial resources are non-renewable.' No, solar energy, THE primary resource that feeds the earth, is quite renewable. Unless you are talking about cosmic scale, where stars do burn up. Point: this is the kind of pessimism we are flooded with every day, and freeing ourselves by understanding first principles could be a tremendous benefit to society's mental health - and a foundation for much better human relations
Neglects Kardashev Scale and is thus from first principles doomed to bad conclusions
One good quote 'Resource constraints on most pre-modern societies were severe, for reasons which we would attribute to primitive technology but they to natural limits' - same myopia plagues this author and is a common misperception that applies today just as it applied with 'primitive' technology, as our current technology is 'primitive' by future standards.
MJ Optimistic viewpoint - first, recognize that scarcity is largely artificial. Then work to fix this artificial scarcity, where a byproduct is a fix of politics. Creative approach means that we work on mutually assured abundance by understanding that at the bottom of it, we all want a good life. Financial independence would allow individuals to have a possibility to evolve to psycho-social integration of Radical Man, whereas in today's world that is impossible except for a few outliers.

More Notes

Ophuls (1977) argued that collective survival depends on a fundamental mindshift, though he did not propose abundance as that mindshift

On the Political Consequences of Scarcity and Economic Decline