This affirmation may be wrong:
»There may not be a trace of those billions of years left by the time we are done.«
Many tons of #soot will imprint the consequences of man's doing on earth's surface. And the subsurface, altering much of what's been living there, under mounting and finally cosmic pressure, forming new rocks around a sooner or later submerged ocean. New oil, maybe.
And the circle of death has come around.
All because of use instead of life.