Our civilization, throughout its history, has treated ALL energy sources as non-renewable, and exploited them to exhaustion, even when they were not intrinsicly so.
Jared Diamond gave examples of Japan in the Edo period (reversed deforestation) and then some Pacific island where they decided to limit the population to 1000 or so, and get rid of all pigs. Societies can be aware and manage the resourses.
But aghr... those examples are not exactly of "our" civilisation, or are they?
Too true. A different current, that has only touched ours recently. What is the hope of learning from it?
