This may be of interest to some on this list: This piece speculates on how industrial civilization could hypothetically reboot on earth, in a post-apocalyptic resource depleted planet without readily available sources of stored fossil energy. One interesting factoid I gleaned from reading it (that I was utterly unaware of) is how the Brazilian steel industry (the 9nth largest ranked producer in the world) utilizes sustainably produced (for the most part) charcoal to produce pig iron from iron ore. This article argues that it would be possible for human civilization to reboot, after a global cataclysmic collapse, even in the resource depleted environment that would remain.
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