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Interesting, but how does humanity rise from a non-industrial dark age to high technology without any reserves of fossil fuels? I say we get only one shot at t
by jbattle 13y ago
Interesting, but how does humanity rise from a non-industrial dark age to high technology without any reserves of fossil fuels? I say we get only one shot at this - if we our our grandchildren blow it, we remain at ... ok this is stupid ... ewok levels of civilization forever after.
- ceautery 13y agoWell, there are worse fates than being cuddly.
- mfringel 13y agoActually, you just have to wait until the planet "generates" more oil via geological processes. You're just going to be waiting a very very long time.
- xerula 13y agoWhen our great deposits of fossil fuels were being laid down in the Carboniferous, efficient decomposers / recyclers of dead wood and plant material (chiefly higher basidiomycete fungi) had not yet evolved. Nowadays there is much less opportunity for dead organic material to accumulate in the kind of quantities that geological processes can turn into significant oil reserves.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoSolar?