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It’s actually probably not possible. We’ve exhausted all the easy to find/surface layer minerals. Oil doesn’t just leak out of the ground anywhere. Iron, copper
by skinner927 3y ago
It’s actually probably not possible. We’ve exhausted all the easy to find/surface layer minerals. Oil doesn’t just leak out of the ground anywhere. Iron, copper, coal, are all underground.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoRight, we've made it easy, it's all on the surface now in scrapyards and landfills </grew up watching junkyard wars and was highly dissapointed to find out the better gear was planted among the junk to make the tv show viable>
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- kaon123 3y agoVery good point. I read Olaf Stapledon's First and Last man, a sci-fi book which describes the next few billion years for mankind and deals with this issue. In one scenario, human society collapses, spends 80 million years living as hunter/gatherers (with some evolution) and then develops once again to a technological civilization, in part because the minerals and fossil fuels have been replenished.
- robertlagrant 3y agoWe've also had a lot of time to develop new things that mean we might need oil less. Oil was (and still currently is) a necessary developmental stage. We just need to get through it.
- qiqitori 3y ago> Oil doesn’t just leak out of the ground anywhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep
- xboxnolifes 3y agoMaybe not at current civilization scale quantities, but there is certainly enough surface metals and oil to bootstrap industry.