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You can be sure that once all the fossil fuels are gone, and society has collapsed beyond the point of return, the remaining humans will be mining our dumps for
by beamatronic 6y ago
You can be sure that once all the fossil fuels are gone, and society has collapsed beyond the point of return, the remaining humans will be mining our dumps for useful items. Wars will be fought over these scraps.
- aardvarkr 6y agoWe’re already mining landfills actually. Pretty interesting concept if you ask me. The concentration of valuable elements is far higher than what you’d find in the wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining
- leviathant 6y agoI like to think that a long time from now, people will marvel that we overlooked the (as of yet undiscovered) utility of used scoopable cat litter, and just threw it out with the trash
- majormajor 6y agoWe already did this in the past for dog poop: https://www.vettimes.co.uk/app/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced-cache/1/a-dirty-job-but-not-to-be-sniffed-at.pdf https://www.vettimes.co.uk/app/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanc...