• deus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Your last point is something I’ve never thought about but makes a lot of sense. Humans living in the aftermath of our collapse probably won’t be able to go through another industrial revolution without easy access to resources like coal, oil or peat. Guess it’s for the better though, since a collapse likely means we’ll have already fully screwed the environment once.

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        1 year ago

        The second Industrial Revolution could be built upon the garbage of the first, perhaps? It’s not like all that metal and solar capacity will just disappear.