> there's no "going back" in a way we sort of have to. oil if finite and there is no replacement for it. the scale that we operate at is only possible because of cheap energy that just sits there in a reservoir in the ground. we basically have about 20-30 years to find a solution for this but no matter what collapse is baked in. we will have a smaller population in the future. this cheap energy is also the cause of most of our problems. if i could turn it all of right now most of the problems we talk about here would go away. i don't think we will go extinct but the future will look back on this time as a bottleneck or great filter
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