Best case? The collapse sets society back far enough that technology backtracks too.
Imagine a local dictator but with 2020’s technology and reach; one stupid, little tyrant could wipe out most of life on earth. If weapons, communications, and transportation also backtrack, any individual dictator’s influence will be limited by reach.
Competing small communities and competing small tyrants give the potential opportunity for escaping elsewhere that isn’t “as bad”.
Or if looking at it from POV other than human supremacy, humans all die out and another species can take a crack at it in a few hundred million years.
Best case? The collapse sets society back far enough that technology backtracks too.
Imagine a local dictator but with 2020’s technology and reach; one stupid, little tyrant could wipe out most of life on earth. If weapons, communications, and transportation also backtrack, any individual dictator’s influence will be limited by reach.
Competing small communities and competing small tyrants give the potential opportunity for escaping elsewhere that isn’t “as bad”.
Or if looking at it from POV other than human supremacy, humans all die out and another species can take a crack at it in a few hundred million years.