If tensions between Russia and the United States spark an all-out nuclear war between the two rivals, more than five billion people would die from hunger alone, according to a new study in the journal Nature Food.
Scientists at Rutgers University projected the amount of soot that would be thrust into the Earth’s atmosphere in a variety of nuclear war scenarios, from smaller exchanges between India and Pakistan to a full-blown war between Russia and the United States.
A relatively modest Indo-Pakistani war would slash the world’s average caloric output by 7% within the first five years — bigger than any disruption humanity has faced thus far. “Even for a regional nuclear war, large parts of the world may suffer famine,” say the study’s authors.
The biggest US-Russian exchange would positively devastate global food production — shrinking it 90% within three to four years after the explosions cease, the researchers say. Seventy-five percent of human beings would be dead in two years.
In addition to lower crop yields, the Rutgers model attempted to account for export restrictions, as well as mitigation efforts such as giving humans livestock feed to eat.
As devastating a picture as the study presents, it’s understated. “The ozone layer would be destroyed by the heating of the stratosphere, producing more ultraviolet radiation at the surface, and we need to understand that impact on food supplies,” Rutgers assistant research professor Lili Zia tells Sky News. Researchers also didn’t factor in changes in fertilizer and food supplies, which would be substantial.
Noting that crises “with nuclear undertones are festering,” earlier this month, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that mankind is “just one misunderstanding away from nuclear annihilation.”
In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said he’d ordered his nuclear forces into “special combat readiness.”
Amid all the talk about Russia, let’s not forget about heightened tensions between the United States and another nuclear power. As The New York Times reported in June:
Last summer, hundreds of new missile silos began appearing in the Chinese desert. The Pentagon declared that Beijing, which had long said it needed only a “minimum deterrent,” was moving to build an arsenal of “at least” 1,000 nuclear arms by 2030.
Meanwhile, just when things were quieting down after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, a previously-unannounced delegation of five more pathetic, attention-seeking legislators arrived on the island on Sunday. That provoked more Chinese anger and another round of military drills near Taiwan.
Against the Rutgers study’s generally horrific backdrop, one country stood out as faring far better than others: Australia’s caloric output showed only small reductions or even an increase. Don’t get excited, Aussies: The researchers said you’d be besieged by refugees from Asia. You may be wishing you had a few more rifles, shotguns and pistols laying around.
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Utter bullshite, obviously.
1. Looks to me like trying to downplay the direct casualties, and the radioactivity, by focusing purely on “reduced food production due to sunlight being blocked from dust/ash.”
2. Even a Pakistani/India war, let’s say with 40 rather small nukes each, would be catastrophic to the whole world just because of dust??
And people wonder why TPTB are pushing so hard for a war with Russia and/or China or both??
Thus from The Revelations of Bible comes the 2nd Horseman, War, comes clearly into focus….
Followed by the 3rd Horseman, Famine, and then the 4th Horseman, Death.
And its all predicated by the 1st Horseman, variously seen as Conquests,and also Pestilence(diseases of all kinds, today made much more possible by COVID vaxes of all kinds).
Which we are in the middle of right now, with the forced vaxes and related genocides.
Get ready folks, its going to get so much worse than today. And quicker than anyone wants….
We are at War….like it, or not….
And it has been forced upon us all, 🌎, by TPTB.
Well we better get moving then. I better hurry and can these banana peppers and sauce these tomatoes.
I prefer the cayenne peppers to the bananas and I dry can my tomatoes (stewed), but you got the right idea. Don’t forget to stock up on rice. It goes great with both those items!
I did Cayenne peppers a few years ago…I dried them, minced, dehydrated, then vac sealed. If I need some for a recipe I just open up a pack and good to go. Fam doesn’t much like got stuff, but they devour banana and bell peppers. Good idea with tomatoes, maybe I will stew some as I have hundreds.
if youre using most ‘modern’ varieties of tomato then the acidity is probably too low for canning safely – be sure to add some extra acidity (lemon, citric acid, etc) to the mix for canning. Many of the more traditional varieties adapted to mediterranean cooking, the smaller dimensioned, often obling, types of tomato, which are also usually more drought-hardy, do have high acidity and are suitable for canning as they are.
Are these the same modelers that claim coastal cities will be inundated by 2010? I don’t trust their numbers just on the general principle that all such organizations are in service to some higher cause.
Maybe. But it does sound like Neil Ferguson gotta a new Gig. New girlfriend too?
This is where it really began to go south for our country: They killed Kennedy’s vision for world peace. Every American should read this. It is a profound tragedy.
Crock of fear mongering bullshit.
There are NO nukes!!!”
I didn’t know this either until several very very smart people here on TBP pointed this out, several times, over the past year or so.
That’s why I come here. To learn shit. Like, the world is flat.
Nukes are fake and gay, bruh.
What’s the downside?
ROFL!!
Oh look, another fake Cold War.
Been hearing this for half a century…Maybe one of my grandchildren will witness the fire work, no dice for me tho.
well you can imagine exactly who is fantasizing with glee about the prospect of killing off large amounts of people… whereas ejecting , what, a few hundreds, hell even a couple thousand, of these psychopaths, from society, maybe sending them all to , i dunno, st helena or something to work their emperor complexes out on each other, would do more good for humanity than almost any other single thing?
Hey don’t worry. The elite will make out just fine in their luxury underground shelters well stocked and equipped. They are the only ones who matter anyway…. right?
Reducing population by the exact amount the elites decided is required to save the planet. How convenient.