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If you are a well-off resident of a high-income country, are open to moving far from your current place of residence and preparing appropriate shelter and stock
by bwestergard 5y ago
If you are a well-off resident of a high-income country, are open to moving far from your current place of residence and preparing appropriate shelter and stockpiles, you can certainly prolong your life as a biological organism.
But can you meaningfully prolong your life as a human being, the inheritor of a specific culture and history? No. You could have no meaningful future after every human being's past had been rendered meaningless by the war.
If you want to understand what the world would look like after a global nuclear exchange, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a good starting point. The movie Threads does a good job focusing attention not on the "day after", but the abject misery of the decades that follow, about which nothing could be done.
https://thebulletin.org/ https://thebulletin.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE
- amelius 5y agoWhat if you find shelter with a small community? Sounds similar to me like going on an extended space mission with a small group of people, in terms of isolation.
- chucksta 5y agoWhat if you are immune to radiation? Point is odds are its not going to be pretty, If you are planning and relying on what-ifs it's moot.
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