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I'm thinking as far as technology-wise. Complex technology requires a complex society. If society were to fall, we'd struggle to make simple batteries let alone a smart phone for every individual. And if we were to fall, we can't get back up because we already used most of the readily available resources the first time around.
If this is the way we treat Earth, then as morbid as it sounds, I'm glad we haven't yet gotten to the point of large scale space travel. Can you imagine all the other planets that would probably be ruined in our wake?
Meh, the universe destroys shit every day, flinging space rocks everywhere and compacting things into a big lightless ball of theoretically infinite gravity. And unlike Earth most of those planets are barren wastelands. Just endless rock and sand and little or no atmosphere, and if there is an atmosphere then it's made of lethal poison. Even the nice ones aren't possible for us to live on because of other conditions like too high or low gravity, and the fact that they're all just so far away.
Humans created technology like bronze, and iron, in the past because it was found on the surface of the earth, or very nearly below it and was uncovered by digging or exploring, but it wasn't hidden miles in the crust of the planet. Most of the precious minerals from the earth have been removed from the surface. We rely entirely on deeper forms of mining to retrieve resources. Should our society be lost for a few hundred years, so will the resources that allowed us to even build the technology we have. We won't advance to this point again, because we will have squandered, burnt, destroyed, used, or buried our resources in various forms that will be hard, if not impossible for a technologically unaware society to do.
The rich who willingly continue to endanger human civilization for profit deserve the greatest punishments conceivable.
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