In the early to mid 70s and even beyond, many pols and books and eco-talk (etc.) focussed on energy. I didn’t know those from RFK, thanks, they are excellent.

--I had a brilliant school teacher who told us the truth - some resources are not renewable.

I remember we had Sundays without cars (Switzerland) and I went out roller skating and playing the fool with family blessing. --

Then, because the ‘energy crunch’ and OPECs power play sort of faded away in an vaporous atmosphere of new energy discoveries, Biz as usual, techno jazz, political savvy - i.e. manipulation, the setting up of client states, new style colonialism, expansion of arms industry, etc., - and/or because the imagination, realization, of limits encouraged what we would today call neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, hyper- or uber- capitalism, globalization, etc. whose essential characteristic is forfeiting of the common good in favor of gain, a rush towards private, corporate, small-group, or even nationalist greed and control, took place.

The ‘west’ or the ‘developed’ countries found a way round the limits by adopting a blatantly exploitative strategy wrapped up in a crazed economic ideology, a new religion, a mantra, touted, sold, foisted on everyone, in boardrooms, through the IMF, the World Bank, even the UN, etc. With the threat of superior military might always lurking in the background. See Iraq: at some point the muscle must be demonstrated or the whole system breaks.