but the hardcore worldbuilders lack writing skills in the first place, but are so full of themselves and their work that they'd make a mess of things even if they committed pen to paper?
]]>At least the bright upside is that lack of research into automating industrial processes and making them more efficient will bring back the high-employment era for low-skill labour. You're getting oil for free, steel for cheap and you can literally dump your ecological concerns outside of this reality. So, you build cars!
]]>They will either undergo mass extinction after we're gone, or evolve to eat carbo -rich sources....
Such as wood.
Wood might go extinct.
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