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If it's a serious collapse, like in the dark ages after the Roman Empire, I think civilization will never recover to the point we are at now.
The industrial revolution started by using all the resources that were easy to mine. We now rely on advanced technology to mine the materials we use today. The future "cavemen" won't have that technology. They won't stumble on oil while digging a well in Pennsylvania. They won't discover iron ore in the hillsides. All they will find are these old rusted bits of metal lying around in the crumbling cities. That will last for several generations, but that's it. Then the raw materials will be gone. They won't even have whales for lamp oil, because they were over-hunted.
I feel sorry for the future genius cavemen that are trying to rebuild civilization. They will have to do it without the raw materials we had. It will be impossible.
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