Timbuctoo
Can you spot the next Timbuctoo? The town was established in 1885 at the height of the California gold-rush and was said to be named after an African American miner who came from Timbuktu in Mali. But as soon as gold fever subsided, the briefly thriving community became a ghost town. I wonder whether, metaphorically, the coal and oil industry will be the next Timbuctoo? Or will the internal combustion engine die out first? Will we look back on the fossil fuel era as a 200-year boom-and-bust aberration, just like those abandoned mining towns? Are there any other contenders?
— Wayne Visser
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