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I believe that nuclear war is going to kill a lot more people than climate change over the next one hundred years. We've had way too many close calls over the

I believe that nuclear war is going to kill a lot more people than climate change over the next one hundred years. We've had way too many close calls over the last 70 years, and nuclear weapons are in far too many unstable hands for them not to be used eventually. It might not happen this year or this decade, but it's almost inevitable they'll be used in the next hundred years, likely sooner rather than later. Perhaps it's unlikely to be "all out" nuclear warfare. Climate change is projected to kill a small number of millions of people. It wouldn't take much for a limited nuclear war to kill more than that.

shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Nuclear war ain't shit. Wait until bioweapons are made and inevitably leak from a BSL-max lab. That's like if the nukes were invisible, without number, and diligently tracked every individual down. Unlike nukes, that's extinction time. Not if we become multiplanetary by then though.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  > Wait until bioweapons are made and inevitably leak from a BSL-max lab. That's like if the nukes were invisible, without number, and diligently tracked every individual down. Plus, as we now know, the attacker might be able to rely on a sizable portion of the target population downplaying, denying, and deliberately spreading, and otherwise politicizing the bio agent. You don't get that with nukes. Once the bombs start dropping, nobody's going to have the time to spread conspiracy theories.