I was recently playing fallout 3 and it inspired a thought. I am currently not a very big environmentalist. I have the belief that after 4.3 billion years or so the earth is not going to really take too much damage if it gets a bit hotter. As a matter of a fact the fact that we are in the middle of an ice age right now helps a lot. I think that when the world gets hotter the planet won't suffer WE WILL. In the words of George Carlin "Pack your shit folks 'caus we're going away". However there are a few things I believe would have a significant effect on the planet. Amongst these are asteroids, gravitational problems, the fact that the moon is slowly slipping out of the earths gravitational pull and most likely nuclear war. Nuclear war is a big problem in my opinion. There are a few kinds of nuclear war, the first being a nation firing a nuke. This can branch off into a few scenarios. If a nation fires one nuke at another the chances are that this country will respond with a nuke and/or get it's allied countries to do the same. Or a country could go all out which would cause the opposing country to go all out resulting in M.A.D (Mutually assured destruction). This could also lead to the chain reaction. another type of nuclear war is terrorist strikes which thankfully has a lower possibility of the apocalyptic all-out war. In the case of an all out nuclear war most of the world would be destroyed. Radiation would kill of almost all animals and plants (with the exceptions of some cockroaches and scorpions and maybe some mosses and lichens resistant to radiation) and most of the essential bacteria (with the exception on a few types that live off of uranium and plutonium). This basically will reset the world back to the beginning (Well almost the begging) it took billions of years to get to where our planet is now and a nuclear war could reset it. The thing about global warming is that although the cause may not be natural the effect is and that what makes the difference. We know already that unless the planets actually moves there is a limit to how cold the planet can get and at some of the most extreme situations world has prevailed in keeping life...well..."Alive". We can cause an ice age and well...we can also survive it, although increases in temperature may be more disastrous for the human race look at our desserts. We have already seen some rather miraculous feats of biology in those area's and I have confidence that in the case of a heated earth many species would survive. But if you consider the implications of nuclear war then you rtell me how anything could survive that...no seriously tell me I would enjoy hearing it.
So which do you think is more dangerous, Environmental decline or all-out nuclear war?
So which do you think is more dangerous, Environmental decline or all-out nuclear war?
