One geological timescale? A blink of the eye. One a human timescale? The collapse/extinction will be long and drawn out, with some regions riding things out for awhile as others are hit hard. Wars -nuclear and conventional, famine, pestilence, genocide, hyper-max migrations, cannibalism, it's...
...going to be a mess of drawm out suffering and death that may take decades, maybe even a century or more. There will likely be pockets of leftover survivors scratching out a hunter/gatherer/scavenger existence in the northernmost latitudes, some might even still have basic electricity for a...
...while, but as things break and can't be fixed and replaced even that will go away. What's left of humanity will devolve. Old knowledge will disappear as books rot away, superstition will rule, our descendants will look upon our dead, eroded cities as the doing of old gods, and retreat back...
...back to their caves as thunder rumbles. Maybe in a few thousand years as the climate again stabilizes and the glacial period that Earth was slowly moving into before we set the climate on fire re-asserts itself, our distant descendants will begin the slow climb out of the morass and begin...
...to rebuild something from the debris of our civilization that still exists. But will they learn from our mistakes?
Is accepting gravity and 9.8 really about learning from mistakes? I fear not. If we disrupt natural ecosystems and ecosystem cycles, wie die. Every species dies if it does that or if it is alienated from life.
Nature is extremely adaptive and life is extremely resilient. Life lives, then dies, and what is left is used in many other configurations, a process that has been happening since even before life began on this tiny ball of rock. Life will only die off completely when the sun cinders the planet.
Crisis VS Collapse Crisis: Last woman standing wins Collapse: Last woman standing loses www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6v...