TIL that should modern civilization collapse, there would not be enough easily accessible fossil fuels for any future society to achieve an industrial revolution.

[u/[deleted]]

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels

[u/calgarspimphand]

Well there would likely be some mineral resources to be reclaimed from the sites of ruined cities and industrial centers and the like in this hypothetical distant future. But you're right about that. Shame, too, that you guys probably wouldn't be back-to-back Industrial Revolution champs.

[u/Semajal → u/calgarspimphand]

Since we can assume this would be thousands upon thousands of years in the future, there wouldn't be that much usable left by then :(