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>I don't mean to downplay the severity of the situation. Isn't that exactly what you meant to do? Almost every day I see "Nuclear war - pfft, no worries, not

>I don't mean to downplay the severity of the situation. Isn't that exactly what you meant to do? Almost every day I see "Nuclear war - pfft, no worries, not a big deal" comments on here. I'm not sure why. It's a bit of a worry! Maybe the culture had enough of freaking out in the 80s and now has to pretend nothing terrible could happen from nuclear war. Or that accidents don't happen, that having a lot of nukes everywhere isn't incredibly risky.

ohiovr 8y ago
Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech? Anyway there are other things people believe that aren't true beside the nuclear winter story. Like we'll all be dead anyway from a nuke war so why bother to prepare. We seem to have taken this view but a lot of the rest of the world didn't. India Pakistan have a couple hundred smaller nukes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d... Seems to be a lot of forest fires over a very large area recently https://www.popsci.com/california-five-year-wildfire#page-2 https://www.popsci.com/california-five-year-wildfire#page-2 And there have been bigger fires in the past which is what a lot of people say nuclear winter is mainly about. Perhaps a nuclear winter scenario could happen in a total global thermonuclear war but even that has been in debate for a while. I don't want a war to be proven wrong.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  >Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech? I don't know what that means, sorry.
  - ohiovr 8y ago
    Well what I mean is that an end days prophecy starts with a quarter of the world population put down by famine, war, plagues, and breakdown of civilization to the point a leading cause of death was from wild beasts. The figure is around two billion. So doom is on the menu, maybe that is what we could be served from South Asia.

ohiovr 8y ago

Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech? Anyway there are other things people believe that aren't true beside the nuclear winter story. Like we'll all be dead anyway from a nuke war so why bother to prepare. We seem to have taken this view but a lot of the rest of the world didn't. India Pakistan have a couple hundred smaller nukes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d... Seems to be a lot of forest fires over a very large area recently https://www.popsci.com/california-five-year-wildfire#page-2 https://www.popsci.com/california-five-year-wildfire#page-2 And there have been bigger fires in the past which is what a lot of people say nuclear winter is mainly about. Perhaps a nuclear winter scenario could happen in a total global thermonuclear war but even that has been in debate for a while. I don't want a war to be proven wrong.

yesenadam 8y ago
>Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech? I don't know what that means, sorry.
- ohiovr 8y ago
  Well what I mean is that an end days prophecy starts with a quarter of the world population put down by famine, war, plagues, and breakdown of civilization to the point a leading cause of death was from wild beasts. The figure is around two billion. So doom is on the menu, maybe that is what we could be served from South Asia.