Preface. The wood world of the future simply won’t have the energy and minerals required to make electronic devices and the precision machine tools to make them. Once diesel fuel starts to decline, all supply chains will be affected. There are no supply chains that don’t have diesel trucks, locomotives, ships, barges or some combination. Especially the industrial agriculture system that produces the vast majority of food with diesel tractors, harvesters, and distribution by trucks.
I have another post called “The Fragility of Microchips” which explains why these will be one of the first high technologies to fail, and are even more difficult and complex to make than motherboards.
It’s past time to preserve knowledge on something more long lasting than microfiche or acid-free paper. Meanwhile, buy books you’d like to see preserved in the future in hard or softback, not e-books, since they will all (and most journals) vanish when the grid goes down.
Preface. Below are excerpts from two articles on why and how the extinction of insects could lead to our own extinction and many other species. Although climate change is more deadly now, an insect apocalypse will kill far more people and other species in the future. Billions of people, birds, plants, animals, fish, and more will starve since 75% of crops depend on insect pollination. They also control insect pests, break down organic matter to recycle their nutrients for new plants, aerate the soil, disperse seeds and more (Goulson D (2019)