With the exhaustion of oil and modern technology the future world will look pretty steampunk

With the exhaustion of oil and modern technology the future world will look pretty steampunk

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With the exhaustion of oil modern society will completely collapse

Though I hope you’re right and the Dark Ages for our industrial society look more like the 1800s than a complete regression in technology and culture

yes steampunk is the attempt at rebuilding

You can synthesize oil from coal, and I doubt that we will run out of that any time soon. Also if you used up all the oil it would create devastating climate effects that might raise more pressing questions than rebuilding into steampunk i.e. survival in general. Also, why the hell should modern tech be used up?
Sage because this thread was already posted and anchored like a month ago

You can use solar to synthesize oil from air. Peak oil presumed technological stagnation. Technology outpacing environmentalists is an old story at this point - though in fairness, the environmentalist’s rebuttal that technological change must be forecast conservatively is valid.

Despite the existence of solid alternatives, an economic depression is still possibly in store if extractable oil starts running low, but a nasty recession is more likely; either way, modern economies won’t collapse.

No we’ll have nuclear powered stuff.

But the chances of being able to do that are slim, especially when life will be much more taxing due to climate change, burning wood and coal would just be easier
bumping extra because you saged

this is not yet possible outside the theoretical realm.

nuclear power is steam genius

Picrelated: the Soviet Diesel-generating train engine, capable of running on coal or wood.

We won't fall back to steam tech. We'll just use more expensive (and polluting) fuel

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