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<blockquote data-quote="Leonard D Neubache" data-source="post: 959606" data-attributes="member: 11069">There's a school of thought that if we suffer a serious decline that we can never recover beyond subsistence agricultural living again.That's because all of the &quot;easy&quot; resources that we built our civilisations with are completely tapped out. You don't find oil at ten feet anymore, and if the drilling rigs all fall into disrepair then what kind of technology tree would you need to get them started again, and how is it possible when the energy surplus of an oil based society was what allowed us to drill to thousands of feet, miles offshore no less?And that's just one of a thousand supply chain issues that a true collapse would bring about.The theory goes that the inhabitants of a planet have just one shot to build a civilisation that will take them to the stars, and if they fuck that up then the next civilisation elsewhere in the universe which is successful will inevitably find the fuckups tending their fields as they'd done for hundreds of thousands of years (assuming their planet wasn't a radioactive wasteland).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leonard D Neubache, post: 959606, member: 11069"] There's a school of thought that if we suffer a serious decline that we can never recover beyond subsistence agricultural living again. That's because all of the "easy" resources that we built our civilisations with are completely tapped out. You don't find oil at ten feet anymore, and if the drilling rigs all fall into disrepair then what kind of technology tree would you need to get them started again, and how is it possible when the energy surplus of an oil based society was what allowed us to drill to thousands of feet, miles offshore no less? And that's just one of a thousand supply chain issues that a true collapse would bring about. The theory goes that the inhabitants of a planet have just one shot to build a civilisation that will take them to the stars, and if they fuck that up then the next civilisation elsewhere in the universe which is successful will inevitably find the fuckups tending their fields as they'd done for hundreds of thousands of years (assuming their planet wasn't a radioactive wasteland). [/QUOTE]

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