Maybe the huffpost should stop wasting our precious electrons.
Well, you see, back in 1884, right before electric lights and when we were still killing whales for petroleum to burn in lampps, and when horse dung was filling NY city streets, and when London was blacked out due to unregulated dirty coal burning in millions of black chuimneys, and when Pittsburgh was black with coal smoke from coke ovens wasting fuel to try to turn carbon into steel ....
Back before clean water and sewage systems and water treatment plants and fertilizers ....
Back when the earth was pure and clean and holy, but when people worked 20 hour days only to die at age 28 in squalor and dirt without heat, power, and light ... With 50% worldwide infant death rates.
Yeah. Back then we did have a renewable society. it got renewed by cheap fossil fuels, oil, coal, and hydroelectric dams.