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Are we prepared for such an eruption today, and what can we do to prevent/fight consequences?

• genwin 14y ago
  Follow-on question: Are we prepared for the consequences of everyone's taxes quintupling, to prevent/fight the consequences of such an eruption? (Not considering the massive corruption increase caused by such tax increase.)
• rwhitman 14y ago
  I think it would really push geo-engineering to a whole new level. Rapid global cooling would render huge chunks of landmass virtually useless and put many of the worlds most economically important cities under a glacier, so governments would be quickly pressured to fund drastic measures to re-stabilize the climate before we have another ice-age.
• arbuge 14y ago
  Well we did make it through last time with much fewer resources...
  • Avshalom 14y ago
    Sure but the thing about already living in the stone age is that being knocked back to the stone age isn't so much a catastrophe as it is Tuesday.
    • arbuge 14y ago
      I dunno... Sometimes I miss the good 'ole days.
• rogerbinns 14y ago
  You should go visit Yellowstone. That way you can stand on a supervolcano that is due to blow any day now (using geological timelines). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera#Volcanic_hazards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera#Volcanic_ha... Some idea of what would happen when it blows: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/article.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/arti... People are very resilient so I have no doubt that some would survive, adapt and then flourish. No worries for the species. The effects could be minimised through standard civil defense type measures. However it would require far greater cross border cooperation than is typical today.
• seunghomattyang 14y ago
  That sounds like a great concept for a TV show.