Postcards from beyond the brink #4
Dear All,
The oldest human stuff in all the world is just a few thousand years old, and a lot of the evidence of human construction is slowly crumbling to dust in Egypt (with a little help - it is rumoured - from Napoleon Bonaparte) and we really know very little of what it was like to live in even that civilisation. All of what we know of the recorded and unrecorded history of humanity has all taken place whilst we have been standing upon what appears to be a very solid and unchanging geography, but we now know that over a long, long period of what we now call geological time, those continents will move and churn and grind all of our human achievements, all of those mighty skyscrapers and roads and bridges down to nothing eventually. I'm trying to think of one thing of this complicated modern world we live in that might still survive in even ten thousand years, and it’s really not all that easy to think of anything other than a sliver of soot in the rock strata to remind the future owners of this planet that we were once here.
TTFN
M.
Bring it on.
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