Not necessarily -- there are a lot more wood-burning stoves in a world without solar panels, and we don't have the population that we had 500 years ago. It's n

Not necessarily -- there are a lot more wood-burning stoves in a world without solar panels, and we don't have the population that we had 500 years ago. It's not like rewinding a tape or time travel. I would predict we start moving backward and simply do not stop -- not at 500 years, not at 1000 years. A positive feedback loop is just someone else's interrupted homeostasis.