I wouldn't be so sure. I think a very likely scenario is that climate change causes the kind of political chaos and upheaval that could send nukes flying, and that's basically game over. Another fun fact about those impossible plans (that might very well still be enacted in an extreme scenario) is that, while they knew at the time that it would only take a few thermonuclear bombs to irradiate the entire world, they didn't have any concept of nuclear winter, and if I remember correctly, the threshold to trigger that doomsday scenario was even lower than the "hot planet" scenario. Nukes may very well still be the endgame one way or another.
on the plus side, a global nuclear war should put a quick temporary halt to global warming. technocrats could call it rapid fission modulated geoengineering
It's really insane how a bunch of world leaders basically have a button that says "END WORLD", and we are not absolutely scrambling to reach some sort of global disarmament agreement.
Nuclear Winter was a valid risk, but more recent studies have shown a long term climate impact (ie, more than a few years of failed harvests) from nuclear war was unlikely (barring something like nuking the permafrost, which would take things in the other direction.)
I wouldn't be so sure. I think a very likely scenario is that climate change causes the kind of political chaos and upheaval that could send nukes flying, and that's basically game over. Another fun fact about those impossible plans (that might very well still be enacted in an extreme scenario) is that, while they knew at the time that it would only take a few thermonuclear bombs to irradiate the entire world, they didn't have any concept of nuclear winter, and if I remember correctly, the threshold to trigger that doomsday scenario was even lower than the "hot planet" scenario. Nukes may very well still be the endgame one way or another.
on the plus side, a global nuclear war should put a quick temporary halt to global warming. technocrats could call it rapid fission modulated geoengineering
It's really insane how a bunch of world leaders basically have a button that says "END WORLD", and we are not absolutely scrambling to reach some sort of global disarmament agreement.
Nuclear Winter was a valid risk, but more recent studies have shown a long term climate impact (ie, more than a few years of failed harvests) from nuclear war was unlikely (barring something like nuking the permafrost, which would take things in the other direction.)