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Imagine we run out of fossil fuels (inevitable). Our possibilities are then limited to those before mass use of steam engines (mass use of steam engines like in the industrial revolution requires cheap easily accessible coal, charcoal from trees won't do). So roughly the 17th century. Horses, sailboats, basic wind- and watermills and manual labour, swords, pikes probably pre-industrial levels of cannons and guns. That's what is sustainable pretty much indefinitely.

The filter is basically built in. Without coal, natural gas and oil it's musketeer era forever.