Herein lies the heart of our predicament. We consume too much non-renewable resources and call it “prduction”. When they cease to be available in the quantities we used to have them (becasue easy to access, cheap stuff gets depleted first) we blame everyone, but depletion for our resulting economic woes. Without realizing that exploitation of natural resources (like oil) cannot be cured by exploiting a swathe of other finite resources (lithium, cobalt, silicon, neodymium etc), we are doomed to fail over and over again. You are right: we definitely need an enlightment.