Geology Mining
The Future Looks Grim
Many commentators find it hard to escape the conclusion that the human race is doomed to return to the stone age fairly soon. The descent of the planet’s human occupants to a prehistoric level of civilization may come in the near future, perhaps in under 1,000 years’ time.
How come? You only have to look at the short time we have had full use of the planet’s fuels and other resources, and how quickly we have used them up. Within two hundred years or so we have nearly mined the planet out. The rate we are burning up the planet’s resources is simply unbelievable.
It won’t be long before all liquid and gas fossil fuels are burnt out. After that the coal will run out. The last to go will be nuclear fuels, but that won’t take long when all else is used up. By this stage iron will be worth the price of gold, and five pounds of aluminium or copper will be something entire clans fight and die over.
The only power supplies will be wind, solar and tidal generators -perhaps with some limited geothermal power in a small number of areas. And with no metals to build or maintain them, their lifetime will be limited to a few short years – perhaps a generation or two. Not really a problem, though, as there will be little left to power anyway by then. No doubt by this stage the oceans will only be a dead, toxic waste holder, so things don’t look good there.
The prospects for human life after this point look extremely grim. The best guess is that with all the earth’s easily-found resources used up, and with no fuels or metals to be found any more, life will revert back to an animal-like existence of a pre-Stone Age type. That’s because previously there was an abundance of flints, wood and game to hunt. None of those exist any more.
The horror of a return to this Neanderthal lifestyle can only be imagined – a spade or knife will be worth 10 pigs and 20 cows; roots and weeds grubbed up with an old stick will be the average diet. Trade will be carried out using goats, cattle and slaves. And as we descend back to the depths of a Neanderthal life again, out of which we can never escape, all the old and vile ways of life will return, to fit the new caveman lifestyle. The human race will return to an animal-like existence.
The shortage of food will result in cannibalism, until the population has shrunk back down to the size that can be supported without any technology. Cannibalism will probably be widespread, since without any technology to produce and distribute food, the population will have to shrink down to a fraction of the current numbers, and until that happens hunger will be universal. Without doubt, population levels will decline to around 5 percent of the level now. Since by the time this all comes about, the world population will be even larger than the huge numbers now, it means that something like 99% of the population will die out.
Naturally, regions with the most advanced use of technology now will suffer the most at this time. Rural areas in backward countries will essentially carry on as they are now – and will never change. High-tech countries will see a return to pre-Stone Age life but without any of the benefits of the land at that time – we have removed all the usable materials. This means that life in the UK and US will revert to that seen thousands of years ago in those areas, as in for example rural Cambodia now. This viewpoint should not be controversial since no one can suggest any realistic alternative.
This marks the final event in human history as there can never be any recovery – all the planet’s resources have been used up.
No transport, no metals, no power, no industry, no energy, no plastics – and that means no medical care of any kind. No antibiotics, no surgeons, no survival if you fall ill.
A Neanderthal lifestyle of an animal quality is the only option then, as timber, game and flints no longer exist. However, as life dies out in the Western industrialised world, it will regenerate in areas like Brazil, if any forest remains. When the toxic urban humanity that chainsaws the trees and bulldozes the land has died out, native tribes – if any remain – should have a brighter future.
Only one escape route is possible here: perhaps by this point in time we might have found a way to make space exploration a viability, so that we can mine the asteroids and planets, to provide resources for vital industries.
‘Vital industries’ by then will simply and only be space transport research, as the human species will become virtually extinct without it. The only way out is off – and the only way off is by finding a way to other planetary systems, where we might be able to locate another similar planet.
If we are lucky, of course. And it doesn’t take a genius to work out that will mainly be for those in power, plus the odd doctor or two.
Talc Mining Geology
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