re: #164 MandyManners

See? It wasn’t painful to provide a link, was it?

There was a time in the XVIII when Capitalism was in ints infancy when we simply could not extract the resources from the Earth at a rate fast enough to deplete them more than locally, and the bounty did seem endless.

It was only into the XX century when technology and growth allowed us to approach it on a major scale that we started to buck up against the limits.

But the mindset continued well into the Bush Administration. Need more? just drill…