"I hope, somewhere inside the policing machine, a new generation of coppers is prepared to show some minerals, to shake the tree, to remember why they joined in the first place." Dominic Adler, writer and former detective in the Metropolitan Police, UK
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Get the show some minerals mug.A civilization that utilizes the energy equivalent of its planet's available resources but in a crude, uncontrolled, and unsustainable manner—typically, humanity in the 20th and 21st centuries. We tap fossil fuels (ancient planetary energy), nuclear fission, and a fraction of incoming sunlight, but are plagued by waste, pollution, and geopolitical conflict over these resources. We have planetary-scale effects but not planetary-scale control or wisdom.
Kardashev Type 0.0 Minimal Civilizations *Example: Present-day Earth is the canonical Type 0.0 civilization. We use ~20 Terawatts of energy, can alter our climate (accidentally), and have a global communications network, but we are still fundamentally bound to chemical rockets, vulnerable to extinction-level asteroids, and fighting over the last drops of oil.*
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