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Yeah, oil and coal in the quantities we found them were the result of a very specific set of physical and biological circumstances for the planet. It’s happened
by hotnfresh 3y ago
Yeah, oil and coal in the quantities we found them were the result of a very specific set of physical and biological circumstances for the planet. It’s happened once. There’s a good chance it will never happen again in the remaining 900ish million years that the planet can support large, complex animals.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoOil, yes. Coal, no. There's still plenty of coal, mainly because we switched to burning oil and gas along the way.
- Qwertious 3y agoParticularly peat, which notably forms in peat bogs at a rate of 1mm per year, on the surface. If society collapses then a millennium later there'll be a metre-thick new layer of the stuff in some areas.