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Honestly I've given up hope for humanity. I want us to hurry up and destroy ourselves already. Maybe those who come after will actually learn but looking at human history they won't.
It'll be the same shit different millennium.
Nobody's "coming after us". We've used up the resources. You know how early humans could just find iron sands or copper nuggets? Well now you can't do that. Resources that didn't need mining have been used up, and whatever will be left in processed form (iron rebar, cars, you get the idea) is processed to the point it requires our current machine civilization to recycle. Can't just toss it into a bronze age blacksmith forge and call it a day. Likewise with the fuels.
So no, nobody's coming after us
You can smelt aluminium with as little as a candle. Its normally incredibly hard to refine but we've left tons of that stuff in pure form all over the place. Fossil fuels would likely be a pain but charcoal exists and would do buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo for smelting iron with a well built forge, It'd be harder to do but finding clearly artifical constructs made of the stuff would probably give them a huge incentive to figure out how to melt the stuff as opposed to our civilization that didn't even know iron could be smelted for a really long time.
You misinterpreted what I meant.
"Those who come after" doesn't mean someone's coming after us as in chasing us.
Those who come after as in those who exist after us. Future humans or whatever species takes over after we inevitably fuck ourselves over.
Edit: I'm the dumb dumbass here. I'm the one who misinterpreted what was said.
As a true rebuttal with my updated understanding, I don't see humans dying out. We already survived one mass extinction. I have no doubt we'll in one way or another survive the next.
And this exchange right here serves as another exhibit for Prof. Cox point.
E: Redemption achieved, but still serves as reminder to read before posting :p
Edit: No I get it now. I'm the one who misinterpreted what was said. I'm stupid.
Spare us the "Oh humans are so stoopid (except me)" rubbish
Shanty towns might be the highest form of recycling we can manage.