If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?
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If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?
Fossils and objects are unlikely to survive more than a few million years. Searching for chemical traces of industrialization offers an intriguing alternative.
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