That's right. Absolute best case scenario, we'd probably be looking at 2-3000 years to recover the amount of progress we've made in the past 250 years. Worst

That's right. Absolute best case scenario, we'd probably be looking at 2-3000 years to recover the amount of progress we've made in the past 250 years. Worst case, we're never again able to progress past 18th century technology. Fossil fuels are a hell of a drug.