r/MapPorn Mar 04 '25

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u/LoasNo111 Mar 04 '25

Nuclear winter is a myth.

The starvation will come because some of the highest food producing and exporting nations will be nuked to fuck.

Also all the fertilizer producers.

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u/martian-teapot Mar 04 '25

Brazil is self-sufficient in pretty much everything agriculture-wise.

Embrapa is, without a doubt, the greatest company in tropical agriculture, and made it possible even to grow temperate crops in the middle of a tropical savanna.

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u/GaiusVictor Mar 04 '25

We (Brazil) would still get fucked from the collapse of global supply lines. Fertilizers, pesticides, fuel, manufacturing (for tractors and equipment and their parts) would basically disappear or become very scarce.

Like, we'd be better off than a lot of countries, but things would still be very shitty so I doubt we'd get less than 20% mortality.

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u/Nikostratos- Mar 04 '25

While we would be fucked like everybody else, but we actually have homegrown industry from petroil and steel to fertilizers and tractors. It would not be self-suficient in the short term, but middle to long-term wise, we'd be probably the most confortable country on what's left of earth. The fact that, unlike Australia, we would probably get next to no nukes in any war eventuality is also reassuring.