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>>15340911
>Resources don't leave Earth, anon
Entropy is a thing.
It's not the diminishing resources altogether, but the usability of the remaining resources.
If the quality is degraded beyond a certain point and all the resources left are mere exhaust materials, then we're toast. You won't have life, let alone a successful civ. You have a Mars and Venus situation where the chemical/geological situation is unsuitable to life without the brute force of some event.

In fact, Earth was once like that, but then the brute force of, firstly, the moon impact and, secondly, the great oxygenation and cambrian explosion events, made is suitable.
Regardless, human civilisation would perish at one point before such an event occurs. That's why some people are still looking for signs of such a thing occurring in the past all bodies in the solar system.

Is such a thing even possible?
Yes it is.

Oh god.
I'm getting traumatic flashbacks to a horrible horrible thing.