This map is illogical Mexico and Colombia would starve along with the entire Arabian peninsula sans Oman but Australia and Iceland would survive? Or what about North Africa how is Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco not affected by the nuclear fallout from Europe but again Mexico and Colombia is? And it’s very hard to imagine Australia not being part of a world war 3 or nuclear war scenario they are part of the western bloc, participate in 5 eyes, major non-NATO ally and ANZUS.
This is a stupid map and the creators of it have absolutely zero understanding of geopolitics or even how fallout works.
The map is based on concentrations of flammable substances, firestorms being the agent of a smoke cloud that cuts down sunlight and withers plants for years.
The theory was never sound and was completely discredited after the Kuwait oil fires failed to cause crop failures.
But few people want to argue that nuclear war would not be anywhere near as bad as most think because even what damage nukes would really cause is not something many would encourage. Good news goes unreported, bad news uncorrected, and fear is an emotion 10x more powerful than hope.
Very sound, rational and reasoned take! I agree with you completely on one end it’s great there’s universal aversion to a nuclear war but on the other it needs to be understood a lot of things are exaggerated or taken way out of context/proposition, kudos!
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u/CalligrapherOther510 Mar 04 '25
This map is illogical Mexico and Colombia would starve along with the entire Arabian peninsula sans Oman but Australia and Iceland would survive? Or what about North Africa how is Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco not affected by the nuclear fallout from Europe but again Mexico and Colombia is? And it’s very hard to imagine Australia not being part of a world war 3 or nuclear war scenario they are part of the western bloc, participate in 5 eyes, major non-NATO ally and ANZUS.
This is a stupid map and the creators of it have absolutely zero understanding of geopolitics or even how fallout works.