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I never hear about nature catching up to us- its always defeated and in the corner, we remain dominant. But as soon as society crumbles, meet those creatures an

I never hear about nature catching up to us- its always defeated and in the corner, we remain dominant. But as soon as society crumbles, meet those creatures and plants we couldnt get rid off- hyper adapted to resist us. Plants to which we are extremely allergic, who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Animals, who by virtue of surviving in information dense environments, are very stealthy- and very clever. Carrying out of knowledge or instinct diseases and allergic contagions, to drive us further back into domes. Most of our companion animals/plants unable to dwell in the open in the overheated world we created. All the resources we had for the first attempt gone- no easy to reach oil, the best mines old landfills and destroyed citys. To return from such a dark age, seems unlikely.

chr1 7y ago
In the video the author specifically talks why this is not a realistic scenario, plants we can't get rid off in our fields are specifically adapted to the way we handle the fields, without us they will be outcompeted by other plants, the domesticated plant and animal species will give the new civilization a huge head start as most of the time our civilization existed went into creating the species that are able to support civilization, old landfills and cities would be very good mines, lack of oil will be compensated by the remnants of our libraries describing other ways of getting energy.
primroot 7y ago
> Plants ... who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Ironically one of such plants is Cyperus Rotundus, very useful in times of famine. Perhaps we are living in hyperopic age, where the obsession with economies of scale and controlled environments makes the immediate localized complexity into a high entropy nuisance worthy of destruction.

chr1 7y ago

In the video the author specifically talks why this is not a realistic scenario, plants we can't get rid off in our fields are specifically adapted to the way we handle the fields, without us they will be outcompeted by other plants, the domesticated plant and animal species will give the new civilization a huge head start as most of the time our civilization existed went into creating the species that are able to support civilization, old landfills and cities would be very good mines, lack of oil will be compensated by the remnants of our libraries describing other ways of getting energy.

primroot 7y ago

> Plants ... who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Ironically one of such plants is Cyperus Rotundus, very useful in times of famine. Perhaps we are living in hyperopic age, where the obsession with economies of scale and controlled environments makes the immediate localized complexity into a high entropy nuisance worthy of destruction.