I think it was the Club of Rome that published a book called the Limits of Growth in 1970, which predicted the exhaustion of virtually all life sustaining resources in food, energy, industry by the end of the 20th Century.
You can go back further of Thomas Malthus, a father of British liberalism in the early 19th Century, who developed the thesis that the geometrical growth in population would overwhelm the arithmetic growth in the food resources needed to sustain them. They both promoted the solution and radical population control, especially of teeming Third World masses.
In that way they harmonized with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who lamented the diminishment of the white race by the coloured hordes. She proposed unfettered abortion and distribution of artificial contraceptives.. especially for non whites.
All the arguments of limitation were proven wrong, in fact, fraudulent rationales with ulterior motives. All underestimated the amazing capacity of the human intellect and ingenuity to provide solutions for shortages. There are, in fact, NO limits to growth.