by Chris Clugston
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Sept. 16, 2011
Nature suckered us in with temporary abundance; a condition that we misconstrued as permanent…
The Set Up
Enabled by abundant and inexpensive domestic nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs)—fossil fuels, metals, and nonmetallic minerals—times were SO GOOD for Americans between the inception of our industrial revolution and the middle of the 20th century, that we came to believe that our domestic NNR supplies were unlimited and that our resulting prosperity was permanent.