[oldcynic]

They'll probably wonder why all the fragments they find seem to indicate we preferred damaging technologies over benign.

Then like archaeologists everywhere will conclude it was of religious significance.

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Are you saying that we shouldn't have had the industrial revolution, because burning coal and oil was very polluting?

[oldcynic]

Not at all. A little glibness aside, I do think we should have replaced many things with better or less polluting alternatives far, far earlier than we do. The market is the wrong tool for many of these choices as shown by some of the current global issues.

At such a vast time distance there's likely nothing whatsoever left of us - except in the geological record as a few rare fossilised artefacts and environmental clues. We have a hard enough time understanding life a couple of thousand years back and religion is all too often trotted out as easy explanation for "we don't know why".

[fullstackchris]

Yeah I'm getting huge nihlistic vibes from a few comments in this thread...