> they better grab what they can now Is there a time in history when it wasn't like this? Didn't we get to this point precisely because people have, more or le

> they better grab what they can now Is there a time in history when it wasn't like this? Didn't we get to this point precisely because people have, more or less, always been doing this? I don't think people suddenly changed in the last half century or so. The difference in modern times just seems to be that we found resources (oil, etc) that could be burned on a massive scale for a variety of purposes.