...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.