Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels? | Aeon Essays
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- Apr, 2015
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It took a lot of fossil fuels to forge our industrial world. Now they’re almost gone. Could we do it again without them?
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William MacAskill @willmacaskill
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Aug 1, 2022
... unless we’ve used up all fossil fuels. The only other detailed treatment of civilisational recovery I know of is this excellent piece by @lewis_dartnell, which unfortunately concludes that reindustrialisation without fossil fuels would be difficult: