Annie Jacobsen
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first heard Mar 2024
last heard 4 Mar
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How's that going to feel?
Hundreds of millions of people die.
In the fireballs, no question.
But the number that I think is very interesting to think about comes from Professor Toon and his team who wrote a paper for Nature recently, 2022, and sort of updated nuclear winter idea based around food.
And the number that they have is 5 billion people.
would be dead.
That's exactly where you'd go.
Good.
According to Toon, those are the only places that could actually sustain agriculture.
You were in the right place at the right time.
That is.
That is, according to Professor Toon.
I mean, he was so generous with me.
He shared a lot of his slideshows that he has for his students.
And that is really pretty much what's left.
I mean, because most of the world is certainly the mid-latitudes would be covered in these, you know, sheets of ice, the freshwater bodies.
Places like Iowa and Ukraine would be just snow for 10 years.
And so agriculture would fail.
And when agriculture fails, people just die.
And on top of that, you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you can't be outside in the sunlight anymore.
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