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by Turing_Machine 951 days ago
Oil, yes. Coal, no. There's still plenty of coal, mainly because we switched to burning oil and gas along the way.
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Particularly peat, which notably forms in peat bogs at a rate of 1mm per year, on the surface. If society collapses then a millennium later there'll be a metre-thick new layer of the stuff in some areas.