Is There a Scarcity of Resources?

Economics as a discipline is born. Out of the idea of scarcity of resources, if there was no scarcity, there'd be no need for economics as a discipline. So what he's found here though, is there seems to be no shortage of energy that this is a constant. Like it doesn't behave the way other things do. And so he's not yet at that point and maybe he doesn't get there because again, he's trying to smuggle it in.