I mean, you're probably right, but the main threat of nuclear war is nuclear winter - that is, if a major (or several major) city(ies) get nuked, the smoke plume from the concrete and charred remains will blanket the Earth for years to come, thereby preventing crops from growing and decimating agricultural production. Same shit happened with the dinosaurs (but this would be self-inflicted)
Oh definitely, I think the estimates are a few hundred million dying directly and then almost everyone succumbing to starvation a year or two later
Only a handful of countries in the southern hemisphere would have the current agricultural capacity to maintain their existing population (capability being a critical unknown factor)
Everyone else could probably survive on mushrooms and a couple other things, and it would be possible to support a small population with greenhouses and LED grow lights if you had electricity
We have absolutely no idea how nuclear warfare and fallout will interact with the already unstoppable climate change trend. Maybe its just me but IMO those old theories about how someone in New Zealand is going to survive in a bunker is just extreme copium, borderline delusion.
Maybe its just me but IMO those old theories about how someone in New Zealand is going to survive in a bunker is just extreme copium, borderline delusion.
Unless the bunker-dwellers have a foolproof air supply independent from surface construction, they were always high on copium anyway. Some concrete down the vents will end their secret-bunker fantasies real quick.
A handful is still enough to end the world.
The world won't end
Even in a full scale nuclear war there's a couple places where enough humans will survive
I mean, you're probably right, but the main threat of nuclear war is nuclear winter - that is, if a major (or several major) city(ies) get nuked, the smoke plume from the concrete and charred remains will blanket the Earth for years to come, thereby preventing crops from growing and decimating agricultural production. Same shit happened with the dinosaurs (but this would be self-inflicted)
Oh definitely, I think the estimates are a few hundred million dying directly and then almost everyone succumbing to starvation a year or two later
Only a handful of countries in the southern hemisphere would have the current agricultural capacity to maintain their existing population (capability being a critical unknown factor)
Everyone else could probably survive on mushrooms and a couple other things, and it would be possible to support a small population with greenhouses and LED grow lights if you had electricity
We have absolutely no idea how nuclear warfare and fallout will interact with the already unstoppable climate change trend. Maybe its just me but IMO those old theories about how someone in New Zealand is going to survive in a bunker is just extreme copium, borderline delusion.
Unless the bunker-dwellers have a foolproof air supply independent from surface construction, they were always high on copium anyway. Some concrete down the vents will end their secret-bunker fantasies real quick.
The increasingly massive firestorm give a decent overview of what additional soot does to climate (not much to the long run impacts of climate change)
This is an interesting article
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0