What if the answer to the Drake Equation is that most species die in their planetary cradle from greed and stupidity? What sorts of species would survive the industrial era burning of fossil fuels and the sudden climate shock? Could life on those same planets where most of the oil is burned up attain a second flowering of technic life millennia or billions of years after the first fatal flowering? Would they repeat their ancestors mistakes? bet there is some SF story with roughly this story…
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