Originally Posted by Anteater

Well, it has been suggested from more than a few scientists that the massive temperature increases around 56 million years ago, when we entered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, were driven by massive CO2 output from some pre-human advanced civilization that there is currently no traces left of. So not Atlantis exactly, but still interesting.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.