Ben Bradford

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Up First from NPR · Should we worry about the end of the world? · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And it also gives us a lot of time to figure out how to stop things from happening, right?

Like asteroid strikes.

And maybe my favorite example of this is the Yellowstone supervolcano, which...

is real.

There is a massive super volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park.

It stretches beyond the boundaries of the park.

It's like why we have all those fancy hot springs there.

And the chances of a major eruption in our lifetime are just incredibly unlikely.

But I think the reason these threats feel very real and present is because of the way that media and pop culture cover these remote possibilities.

Yellowstone is due for an eruption.

It would look like hell on earth.

You know, there's all these breathless documentaries.

And made-for-TV movies that promise imminent doom.

Based on the latest predictions of leading scientists.

So, you know, you have that, you have like your cable TV documentaries, you've got your internet conspiracy theories, and they're just, you know, grand for the Yellowstone supervolcano.

But ultimately, what you get down to when you talk to the people who study this, the volcanologists, the geologists...

It's not going to explode.

And there's some really simple reasons that it's not going to explode.

The most basic one being that as far as we can tell, to put all of the magma, to have all the magma in that chamber fill up and liquefy across a place bigger than Yellowstone Park itself takes maybe a thousand years.

So we would have some time to deal with it.

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