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You can't fix climate change with a war. Modern climate change modeling and concerns grew out of Cold War studies of the atmospheric impact of thermonuclear wea
by yodon 7y ago
You can't fix climate change with a war. Modern climate change modeling and concerns grew out of Cold War studies of the atmospheric impact of thermonuclear weapons (referred to as "Nuclear Winter"). Bombing a major country into submission is very likely a humanity ending event because of the amount of material blown into the upper atmosphere (the Nuclear Winter research was itself a direct result of modeling done at Cornell to understand the aftermath of a large asteroid or comet hitting the earth's atmosphere at the end of the Cretaceous era to kill off the dinosaurs). We've reached the point where MAD isn't just mutually assured destruction for you and your opponent, it is for everyone.
- loopz 7y agoIndeed. Look at Syria. Not long ago a country well enough off. The destruction is total. This with conventional weapons and the superpowers weren't even trying hard..
- DuskStar 7y agoBut the real question is "Is Syria emitting more or less carbon than it was in 2010", not "is there destruction".
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoHey, in Civ2 I wasn't bombing people with nuclear weapons! It just creates more waste!! No, basic rockets work just fine. And SDI to kill off enemy nukes.
- dTal 7y ago>Bombing a major country into submission is very likely a humanity ending event WW2 disagrees, I think. You don't need to carpet the place with nukes - a few well-placed, climatically-harmless strikes will do. Will it trigger a species-ending global nuclear war? Maybe - but very likely not. Maybe people are smart enough not to end the species over such a thing. Maybe other people are smart enough to abuse that fact.