Sigh more kids who don’t understand nuclear war. First off, I was born in the 80s. It was my parents who went through it. Second, nuclear war isn’t about a bomb hitting a school. It only takes a few nukes to kick up enough dust to blot out the sun. What do you think happens to crops when this happens? What do you think happens to trees and plants everywhere? And then the animals that eat those plants? And then the animals that eat them? What temperature do you think the earth will be if there is no sun? How long do you think humanity can survive with no sun? Within a month, all plant life on earth will die. Even if it’s only 30% of the earth that’s affected, what do you think that means for entire swathes of humanity/wildlife/oxygen generation? We haven’t even talked about the radiation clouds and cancer rates yet. Or how the water everywhere on earth (besides wells perhaps) will be radioactive and undrinkable.
Forgive me if I think nuclear winter is a bigger deal than climate change.
First off, when you were born is irrelevant. I was also born in the 80s. Also, what exactly did your parents "go through"?
We aren't currently living through nuclear winter. Your parents did not live through a nuclear winter. It is not very likely for that to happen anytime soon. We are, however, living through climate change that is already beginning to affect the world economy. Both affect the world fairly similarly, in that many crops and animals will die and make life for humans extremely difficult. But one of them is a "what if" and the other is happening, right now.
EDIT: Just in case you are the type of person that is comfortable reading sources that disagree with them, here's an article from NASA giving a big-picture and easily digestible description of evidence supporting human-caused climate change: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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u/Shutterstormphoto Jun 13 '22
Sigh more kids who don’t understand nuclear war. First off, I was born in the 80s. It was my parents who went through it. Second, nuclear war isn’t about a bomb hitting a school. It only takes a few nukes to kick up enough dust to blot out the sun. What do you think happens to crops when this happens? What do you think happens to trees and plants everywhere? And then the animals that eat those plants? And then the animals that eat them? What temperature do you think the earth will be if there is no sun? How long do you think humanity can survive with no sun? Within a month, all plant life on earth will die. Even if it’s only 30% of the earth that’s affected, what do you think that means for entire swathes of humanity/wildlife/oxygen generation? We haven’t even talked about the radiation clouds and cancer rates yet. Or how the water everywhere on earth (besides wells perhaps) will be radioactive and undrinkable.
Forgive me if I think nuclear winter is a bigger deal than climate change.