How far in the future are we talking? Far enough and this moment in time will essentially be totally lost to time.

Everything, of course.

Environmental pollution. All the different sorts of environmental pollution.

Hold on a sec while I go digging into the tickle trunk for my Gary Oldman “Everything!!” meme.

Knowing well in advance that doom is coming and still not figuring out how to band together and stop it

Killing half of the world’s other species on our way out?

Our cowardice in the face of the slow-burn societal and environmental decline. The fact that we had the numbers, but still allowed a very small percentage of rich people to destroy the world around us while we only focused on our individual wants.

Probably the destruction of civilization.

Then nothing, as the generations pass and the wreckage of our civilization becomes a simple fact of life rather than a great tragedy.

Everything. Each generation does squat then blames the previous generation.

Putting cheese in a spray can

gestures widely

“Our ancestors possessed wisdom that is lost to us now. This artifact is believed to have been used to distribute concentrated food pellets. They called it a ‘PEZ.’”

The same people we blame the bronze age collapse.