[wkat4242]

It was just a sign of the times. People just didn't realise the impact as the negative effects hadn't started yet and the benefits were huge in lifting most of Europe out of poverty.

Soon after the oil crisis happened though which was really the start of climate and environmental awareness.

[bogomipz]

The Oil Crisis was 1973-74. Commercial Concorde flights began two years later in 1976. I've never heard a connection between the Oil Crisis and the beginning the climate awareness. The crisis was considered a crisis specifically because we couldn't get enough it to burn.

[wkat4242]

Of course the Concorde was being designed long before that. Since the mid-60s. It was still a product of a care-free age.

At least in Holland the oil crisis definitely kicked off a moment that questioned the constant availability of cheap natural resources. Suddenly what was "on tap" was no longer there.

The climate part came later (but the environmental movement started around that time) but in my view it was the first chip in the belief of oil as the foundation of a long-term prosperous future.