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CMV: If humanity became extinct, there is little to no chance of an advanced society evolving on earth again.

I think that humanity is Earth's one and only shot at a species that can potentially reach beyond the planet and colonize other places.

If we became extinct, or if our society and infrastructure was destroyed to any significant degree, there is little to no chance an equal or greater society would ever come about again on Earth.

This is due to the amount of resources we have used up so far, that will potentially never be replenished, and that are necessary to make the jump from an intelligent species to an industrialized, globalized society.

All of Earth's infrastructure is interrelated to such a degree, that if some disaster destroyed 70+% of the infrastructure and killed 70%+ of the people, there would be almost no chance of clawing our way back.

If we were to revert to a pre-industrial age, there wouldn't be enough easily accessible energy/materials to kickstart an industrial revolution, and we would be forced to make small, incremental improvement until we were wiped out by some natural disaster or cosmic event.

The same would apply to any new intelligent species trying to industrialize. Oil and Coal is replenished far slower than it was in the past, due to more recently evolved bacteria and fungi that can break down organic matter and return it to the carbon cycle. Rare metals we have mined will never become replenished. Stuff that we have used would be long gone after several million years.
The fossil fuels we have left unused will still be there of course, but most of these are locked deep underground, or in shale, or at the bottom of the ocean, where a pre-industrial civilization would find it all but impossible to retrieve them.

In summary, I think that the industrial revolution was kick started by cheap accessible energy, and the modern age we live in now was started by the transistor - a technology only available to a fairly advanced, industrial society.
Neither of these things would be available to a new civilization/a post-apocalyptic human civilization, so I don't believe they would have a chance to colonize other planets before their luck ran out and they were hit with an extinction level event.

CMV.
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There are many other forms of energy besides fossil fuels.  We happened to focus on fossil fuels but there is no reason that another species would not be able to have an industrial revolution based on a different form of energy.  It just may happen a bit slower than ours did, but that doesn't mean it will not happen.

Most of the rare metals that we have mined and used are still on Earth.  It will be a simple matter of other species finding the results of our civilizations and mining our ruins.  These deposits of  metals will likely be *more* accessible than the deposits that we worked with as we have already refined them, so the following species will have an easier time with metallurgy.