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If we gave up animal agriculture, we'd need a lot less space and resources for the same amount of calories... So that would definitely help in this scenario
Not neccisarily true. Some planets like mars have evidence they used to have water and arguably life and no longer have either. Sometimes drastic changes cannot be reversed @FlagimirKramnik
Southern nations will ally to protect from the starving invaders. No one wants illegal immigrants right? (Unless they're you, then it's understandable and OK yes?)
"how humanity will" implies humanity survives "how humanity would" implies humanity does not survive bc it's a would be scenario edit: someone below corrected my comment
@@GotMyTowel42 No, "how humanity _wouldn't"_ or "how humanity won't" imply lack of survival. "Will" vs "would" is the difference between implying the nuclear winter is going to happen, vs it hypothetically may happen, but may not.
This was eye-opening. I had no idea the aftermath could be even more devastating than the initial strike. Thank you for breaking down the long-term consequences-it's a grim reminder of why these weapons must never be used
How could you not kno this? The living will envy the dead. The climatic conditions distupted - not for the good. Radioactive snow falling in deserts, no rain on the rice fields and the protective Ozone layer blown to hell. That means everyone gets unfiltered sun radiation, not sunburn, Cancer. All the harbors flooded
Having these titanic arsenals requires maintenance and supply logistics, which is an industry of big, big money in the hands of very few people. All the STS and general DoD folk are essentially minimum wage slave labor, while fantastically well paid contractors slowly eat more and more funding. The use of Nuclear Weapons has never been the point. We always fear it, but that fear is itself part of the money making equation and the perfect culpability shield. They never intend to use them, but instead continue increasing stockpiles, and that is increasing the absurd wealth these systems funnels from public to private hands. That's the real war currently ongoing, and we've been losing it for 60 years.
@@BrandanLeeYeah but people can still use them. I wish nobody ever actually meant to, but people do, and we've come close Also DoD being minimum wage slave labor is brutally true 💀
Also scarier, is that people have thought about this, and have been researching it. Now who do you think is paying the scientists to research this? Besides a philanthropist organization trying to convince everyone that we can't let this happen? Perhaps some rich powerful people that are PLANNING for it.
Not only that but the people manufacturing and stock piling these weapons are fully aware of what would happen if they ever used them and yet they continue to make more and are increasingly making more threats involving them. Like I don't care who you are or what country you come from but it's in none of our interests to go to nuclear war it's literally just the politicians being small minded. Like I can understand going to conventional war because I'm joining the marines but nuclear war makes no sense to me. It's the equivalent to a kid taking his ball home just before losing a game of football it's honestly embarrassing
Yeah, no. It will not be 200 people or 20 people fault. What are you even talking about? What about the hundrends of millions in the west voting idiots who cooperated with Putin's ways? What about the billions in the east directly or indirectly aiding Putin? Yeah, no, noone escapes fault. Not you, not you parents, not you relatives and not your friends and compatriots. It will be a collective fault.
The worst part is convincing your insurance company that your radiation burns are not a pre-existing condition, and they should allow you to get treatment out-of-network, because your regular hospital was vaporized.
if anything europeans would be worse off seeing as how small Europe is and it would probs be a very big target if this hypothetical war was with Russia.. @@gohumberto
the upside of living in London: chances of surviving more than 1 second after that first bright light in the sky is close to zero, rather than starving to death
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Plus a bright light in the sky would probably be a welcome sight for the split second we see it. Just an excited "Is this that 'sun' thing I've heard people tell of?" And then boom
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It depends on every single person who votes for people who are committed to keeping nuclear weapons. I wrote to all candidates standing in the upcoming election in my area to find out their policies and views on this. I refuse to have any part in electing anyone who supports nuclear weapons. It's the biggest issue facing us right now, above all else because literally nothing else will matter if we don't do all we can to try to prevent this.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559I agree but that really only applies to certain countries. People like Putin and Xi Jinping can’t just simply be voted out of office.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559 "Who votes for people" Tell that to the Russians, who chose to have a dictator who wants to "Restore" an empire in a vain attempt at glory, not minding sacrificing hundreds of thousands of his own and Ukrainian lives.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559 Have you considered the reality that attempting disbarment can actually increase the odds of a nuclear war? If you fully disarm and an opponent does not; they are actually more likely to decide to use their nukes when they know they can't be nuked backed. The best you can do is an arms limit treaty; similar to what was done with the soviet union; where you both agree to greatly limit the number of nukes while not eliminating them. If you want to get into the specifics, we can look at game theory (a branch of mathematics) to see what is different between the two scenarios.
Its not that we are collectively dumb, but its how we view eachother and our believes. We kill eachother because we simply dont like eachother. Thats the dumb part.
I went to the atomic bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima last year and got a small glimpse at how awful a single nuclear weapon could be. If a nuclear war did happen I pray i would be one of the lucky people to instantly be turned to dust. Some of the most horrific things i read and saw were from the aftermath of the explosion. Nuclear weapons are truly terrible.
I've been to the a-bomb museum too. it was profoundly humbling and in many ways deeply disturbing. We even met a very elderly survivor of the blast and saw some of the scars she still carried. Nukes are extremely cruel and indiscriminate weapons; the irony is that they are also almost the pinnacle of human achievement, intelligence and perseverance. We had nukes and airplanes that could carry them thousands of miles before both of the Wright brothers had died. We have so much ability and potential, just not the ability (yet) to resist our hubris.
And I wonder, what it would take to stop army folk placing bets over which testicle would explode first when bound with wet bamboo; or folk that would face slavery and torture that only the Nazis could admire. Suddenly, Boom!
The two bombs dropped in Japan are two relatively small bombs. By today's standard, they can be qualified as tactical weapons if not having the massive dead weights.
@@kuturak Man you were in one of the deepest moments of the cold war. He probably saved most of us and our world but it would have not been only a misunderstanding. There was a whole world tense situation at the base of it.
@@kuturak The US had similar incidents in ' 79 and '80. With the latter one showing a more credible launch, and only really getting a more thorough check because of the similar incident in '79
i mean look whats happening, usa+nato are fighting a proxy war with russia in ukraine, its already the closest we ever been in human history to this bullshit going off any script. I wonder if this has anything to do with billionaires building bunkers en mass and globalists agenda of keeping world population under one billion... :/ scary times we are living in.
Yeah I think it’s a bit irresponsible really. None of this is actually going to happen. It’s simply not in the interest to make it happen for any armed state, it will never bring a ‘win’ for a warring side. It’s barely even worth considering.
@@aquiatic Any sane, rational leader would never do it. But unfortunately we have multiple nuclear armed or close to armed countries led by people who are not sane and rational. I couldn't begin to guess the actual chance of this happening, but it is definitely non-zero, and we should try to do something about it.
We are being conditioned to accept this catastrophe during our life time. If you have a closer look at this channel's contents, you can see a trend of "end of day" scenarios.
it seems like everytime we create a new stronger weapon it was all to prevent take overs from happing so how long can the nuclear bomb last before they are dated by war standards and have something else to worry about.
@@MikkelDevs First we need to stop the people in our own countries who want to sell out to those authoritarian regimes. That's priority one, but as soon as that's dealt with we focus on the regimes directly.
@@rphb5870 If you give them what they want when they escalate, you only encourage future escalation. Trying to deescalate by giving in to escalatory rhetoric ironically only makes future conflict more likely.
@@airlynx307 so in other words: we have to destroy the world in order to save the world? But see, Russia is not the ones who escalates. It is always America that escalates. Since day one this entire conflict have been driven by Ameirca. In Ukraine it started with the cia instigated coup in 2014, and the installation of the puppet regime. For eight years it did horrible atrocities to the civilian in Donbas, while Russia tried to find diplomatic solutions. But a precondition for diplomacy is a mutual understanding of limitations. And just like thy attitude is an example of, the west, (meaning America and his puppets) have the audacity to think that they are almighty. That they can simply dictate terms to anyone, and never themselves have to make concessions. At the end war became inevitable, as America refused to stop its march east. This have to do with a fundamental difference in how America and Russia sees the ending of the cold war. Russia sees it as a Repprochement, a way to rebuild lost connections, and hoped it would create a new world of shared understandings. America saw it as a surrender, as them winning, and as the victorious side they had to press their victory to the max. An important aggreement that America did not honour was the Gorbatjov-Bush promise that Nato would not expand one inch east. But now they are right at Russia's doorstep NATO should have been dissolved after the Warsaw pact dissolved, not expanded. It is an extremely provocative stance. With Ukraine it became existential. a simply matter of survival for the Russian federation That is how Russia sees it. Nato as a hostile alliance bent on their destruction.. with the rethoric that comes out from the west, how can we even say that is wrong? nato have to back off, if they don't we end with nuclear war.
I couldn't agree more with you. That's what Russia realized and now that's what they are doing. Nato wants more each year, they gotta be stopped. @@airlynx307
They only asked that Ukraine should not be allowed to use those weapons because it is being operated my NATO troops , which can lead to escalations @@airlynx307
As the Kelvedon Hatch bunker says, “If you survive, after a few days you’ll start to feel a little bit ill, and after a few weeks, you’d be a little bit dead.”
You do know hydrogen bombs don’t have the radiation effect as a normal nuclear bomb. The explosion is much more destructive, but it doesn’t have the radiation.
@@fish8415 They actually have it since many species of rodents create their dens near rivers since the terrain is easier and often provide more food. They derebely decide to risk to die in case of a flood that live a little harder life somewhere else. So yes, mice can create mousetrap and they actually do it
@@fish8415 if the mice are competing for resources they will design mousetraps, its common sense. And since resources are limited at some point they will compete for the scraps whether they like it or not
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@accessthemainframe4475 As an aussie, neither us nor you nor both combined would stave off the resulting food crisis invasion from the rest of the developed world. We'd both be heavily invaded
Shit. That line "if you have more people than calories, in a few weeks you won't anymore" made me rethink my life for a good minute. That was honestly terrifying asf. Edit: Dayum that's a lot of likes and also, human meat!? The greater question is about the morality then
What scares me the most isn't the fact that we have nuclear weapons. It's the fact that there are people in positions of power who are crazy enough to use them. There have been several scares over the decades since nuclear weapons were invented. One really good example is a Russian officer on a submarine refused to launch nuclear torpedoes against the US Navy during the Cuban missile crisis. Then there was the Russian officer at a early warning site that picked up five incoming missiles. The warning was false, and attributed to flaws in the system. The world would be a very different place of those two men acted rather than thought things through. The world needs people who think before they act, not just automatically react to a threat, real or perceived.
If nuclear armeggedon ever happened, the generation that recovered enough to have nuclear weapons would probably not remember how bad nuclear winter was or care what happened maybe 1000 years ago. They would totally rebuild them Edit: 1000 years is hyperbole. There are no good estimates for how long it would take to recover from all-out nuclear war.
W wouldn't need that long to rebuild. There are a few key technologies that lead to our technology and population to skyrocket. Remember that southern areas might not get destroyed at all. They will starve and only a small percentage might survive but what will survive almost completely is the technology in these areas and all the books with the knowledge to built them. Getting to the point to build the next nuclear weapons will not take more than a few generations.
@@hackfleischking5162ehh it’s probably take longer ao much off out technology relies on the global supply chain if its gone it’s significantly harder to get all the rare metals needed for making computers plus the labs needed to make them
@@tux_the_astronaut The computers aren't gone, all it'd take is building ships or using what you already have and going to these now very empty, very devastated areas and digging through the garbage. You'd find more than enough functional pieces of machinery to rebuild a country from salvage work, and anything non functional is still often metal for the main important components so you can just reforge them anyway. The gigantic factories that have even larger machines would in fact survive, unless they were directly nuked. It's not a case of "we lose everything forever oh nooooooez" it's more of a case of if a nation has the endurance to survive the starvation period and salvage what they need from the dead zones before anyone else. Those who do, would become the new global superpower very quickly. You also have to keep in mind, the temperature around the equator will also drop to a comfortable level which means farming will boom there for a decade or two, which means these countries will have a boom of food and supplies. Which also means that when things stabilize they will also have a crash after the fact if they don't build an industrial base to maintain it before then
@@tux_the_astronaut but a country that survices relatively untouched would be much better suited to going and just plain invading the well know rare metals and other resources as they would be in a much better position to just claim it
"It's easy to calculate how many people can be alive on Earth... If you have more people than calories, then in a few weeks you don't anymore". The way how cynical yet unquestionably straightforward these calculations are sends shivers down my spine. It's like you can try and do anything to survive but the truth is - if there is no food, then there is no food. And you can do nothing about it
Yeah, the ability to produce so much food is humanity's foundational superpower. Everything relies on it. Nuclear war takes that away and we instantly fare no better than animals, where food is a daily struggle.
You can try the same principle when your fridge is empty but you're hungry: close the fridge, lower standards, try again. When hungry, the dog will start to look very tasty. Waterfowl and small game will be hunted to extinction. Eventually people will be boiling treebark or eat tulip bulbs, just to get some nutrients. There's little you can do against this, I've got a small food supply of a couple of months ever since the lock downs, but bridging 10+ years is nigh impossible, I'd need a second and probably a 3rd garage to store that much food...let alone keep it edible & concealed as to not get mugged... it'll be truly hell on earth, just a lot colder than hell.
@@JordanBeagle if you get hungry enough you'll resort to humans as well, at some point your brain doesn't care about how much you love that dog, at some point your brain just wants food
@Io_Trading ... they do. Yes, someone like the US president or Putin only have the nukes of their own country, but it's not like nobody else is going to launch if either of them does.
My grandfather was one of the first US observers sent into Hiroshima. We asked him why he never made a bomb shelter. He said"you arent going to want to survive that, itd be worse than just dying outright"
@@danny089-theodeoron4 actually in life and death stations you're brain well want to live even if you don't so if a depressed and suicidal person experience ww3 its gonna give him a reason to survive crazy right ? Conscious and subconscious are widely different lol.
@@rami0036disagreed, i'm glad you are not on the same issues i am suffering from, and you probably don't even read the statistics of how many people off themselves even today and all across history. It seems like you believe this topic doesn't exist and that somehow, the brain will fool itself into survival... sad... tragic... people off themselves every day due to much less of a reason than that, and no, i know myself more than you think you know me, i know my limits and my beliefs, so if push comes to shove, i will off it...
1. All carriers would have been destroyed in the initial exchange 2. The logistics required to project power across an ocean are nontrivial even in peacetime. This would be flat out impossible to do in a postwar scenario.
@@isodoublet 1. No. Carriers are mostly out at sea. And they would not be the targets. Most would still be around, unless there was a major naval battle prior to the big exchange. That said, your second point is still true, so there's that.
5:12 "if you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks you DONT anymore" - that might have been the darkest sentence (and totally accurate of course) I've ever heard from Kurzgesagt.
don’t worry nuclear war is inevitable you really think our world leaders are dumb enough to start one? that’s why one hasn’t started yet the cold war was the closest it’s been to an actual world war 3 maybe a tensions are high now too but not as much as before
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The 3-year volcanic Winter that started in 536 halved Sweden's population. 10 years of Winter with an over-reliance on imported food sounds so much worse.
Probably like how volcanic eruption of Mt. Toba (Nowadays turned into Toba lake in Indonesia) almost wiped out humanity back 74,000 years ago. Yet even back then, humanity was a hunter-gathered society. So with our society today deeply rely on technology, the effect could be much worse.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
"On the Beach" is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
@@abyscidis The novel was published in 1957, no need to critique it with 2024 standards of authenticity. Besides it was mostly a story about people's reaction to their impending deaths.
The relative social cohesion even towards the end. Reflects a completely different society. You'd expect barbarism. Looting. Complete destruction. It was all very.....orderly. A product of a more homogeneous, high trust culture? Wishful thinking?
@@deanoost9599 In our modern world, we don't need impending extinction to have barbarism, looting, and complete destruction. We get those on every day that ends in "Y". I would argue that Western civilization collapsed over the course of the late 20th century. I suspect that's what Chinese historians will teach in the following decades as they inherit the globe from the imploded ruins of the former American empire. Hopefully they learn from what happened to us.
It is, because it assumes it would just be russia, china, and the US lobbing nukes at each other. The nukes are being launched at everyone. That's what makes MAD scary. MAD was formulated that if someone launches nukes at someone else, they launch on everyone else too. Allies and enemies alike. Nuclear and non-nuclear countries too. Australia's getting nuked. Argentina is getting it. The fallout over the next decade will poison all fresh water for decades, and the dust will leave an irradiated layer in all soil and sediment, even that in the oceans, river deltas will be toxic and most marine life will be dead within 10 years. Algae may go extinct if the nuclear material doesn't kill it. This video is best case scenario. Not MAD scenario where every habitable spot on earth is targeted for a nuking. The real scenario is that everyone dies in less than a decade, and so does most life. P-T level event. Optimistically, humanity survives for another 75 years in deep underground shelters with food supplies, but nutrient deficiencies will add up over time. You can only recycle your waste and water so much before you run out of nutrients to support a small population. getting hit with an asteroid would be less destructive, unless it melts the crust.
I feel like a psychopath for enjoying these videos, and finding them interesting, whilst not fearing anything. Either psychopathic behavior, or me being REALLY stupid.
If you think about it, it really is amazing how humanity has progressed from sword fight, to muskets and finally to an age where we can destroy ourselfves in a span of few minutes.
Einstein is rumoured to have said: "I know not what weapons will be used to fight world war 3, but I know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".
@@CircusFoxxothat’s actually so cool to think about. For 6.000 years the most advanced version of transportation of a human would be a man on a horse. How long until we have giant space ships
There is a good chance that nuclear war will never happen. And if it does, nothing matters anymore, so all we can do is live our lives as if it would never happen.
Idk, the idea that humanity could survive ten years of winter seem plenty uplifting to me. Sure, most of us would be dead. But the species would endure. Essentially, we could survive our best attempts at destroying ourselves- and in a wierd way, that's actually reassuring. When you get right down to it, life on this tiny little mud ball we call Earth could be wiped out at any moment even if we never made a bad decision. A star could go super nova and hit us with X-rays, we could get hit with a decent sized rock, a critical species might die out do to something unforseen causing total ecosystem collapse. We could get exposed to the wrong kind of space dust. We could get hit by a gamma ray burst. There are probably plenty of ways we could get wiped out that we can't even concieve of. Life it fragile- and our planet is less than a speck compared to the rest of the cosmos. We could get snuffed out and no one out their would be the wiser- but at least knowing that it's unlikely that we will actually manage to completely destroy ourselves is nice.
Brother, hang in there! I grew up in the U.S. during the (1960s-'70s) 1st Cold War, living in Amarillo, TX. (where there was a SAC B-52 Base): then (after Amarillo AFB Closure/ Deactivation) in Memphis, TN. (where the 3rd largest U.S. DoD Defense ( Strategic Supplies Stockpile) Depot was then). Both areas are on the Soviet/ Russian 1st Strike/ Priority Tagets List: I've lived most of my life "Under the Sword of Democles". When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, and the Warsaw Pact dissolved many of us in the West breathed a Giant Sigh of Relief. We believed we had dodged the bullet & the world was going to thrive. Now, in 2024, we've come full-circle, not knowing if today the world was going to end in 6hrs. GOD Bless, Love & Protect us All.
Going out in atomic fire sounds like a much kinder fate than having to live in post mushroom cloud Argentina, or even last decade Argentina, for that matter. You should be thankful for what you have. Greetings from Argentina.
@@darrenmxThe clicks on that vid will be so lit. I can already see all the sponsorships. Mr Beast: "How I have managed to make Argentina one of the richest countries in the world while also solving overpopulation and the warming of our planet!!!!1!!"
Yes, an incredibly organized and high technology possessing fascist cult will magically spring into existence after a nuclear war. Not terribly long ago, I bought a Brotherhood of Steel embroidered patch to sew onto my jacket. But then I threw it away because I didn't want anyone to think that I was a fascist asshole. Which is what the BOS is.
@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 sounds like you're putting a lot of real world emphasis on a video game and making some assumptions about how much people care about non veteran patches If you wear patches that are neither national park or military , nobody cares lol Lastly ..... AD VICTORIAM
As an Australian that knows we are allied with the US and other NATO nations and would likely join any war they are in, thus making us a potential target for a nuclear strike, just be sure to live outside of major urban areas :)
In the latest Scientific American there were some shocking simulations of how nuclear fallout from just ONE coordinated nuclear attack on US nuke silos would affect the radiation environment in the USA. Long story short - depending on the wind direction the "50-100% fatal" smoke plumes would either spread around to cover half of the continent or would form long smoke columns spreading from one end of America to the other. If that happens on a global scale the deadly radiation cloud would cover the entirety of the northern hemisphere and it would eventually also cross the equator. There is a story called "On the Beach" that discusses this scenario from the perspective of Melbourne (it was also adapted to 2 movies).
I've read that the survivors wouldn't be able to rebuild as most of the easily accessible resources that boot-strapped humanity to where it is now are gone.
That's true, but they'd also have things that humanity had to develop from nothing, so they wouldn't necessarily start from 0. Like language, and an already standardized number counting arithmetic system. Especially if those nearly untouched nations in the southern hemisphere were able to keep all their infrastructure and knowledge.
@@dragon_nammialso, things like metal would be widely available to scavenge, rather than having to mine it all out of the ground again. Biggest one would be fossil fuels, we would have to find a new way of producing energy because the low hanging fruit of oil, coal, etc. is long gone already.
@LouisE-mp8lx I think humanity would be thrown back to the Era of steam engines, or slightly before then at worst. We also have science pretty well figured out, with stuff like the periodic table and the Standard Model of physics. With stuff like patents being irrelevant, restarting human development probably could happen within a couple generations. Still horrible of course, and especially for the immediate survivors. I suspect more advanced technologies like advanced pharmaceuticals and modern digital electronics would be out of reach for awhile. Basically anything requiring advanced manufacturing. But people could maintain a decent standard of living as long as they had food. Air conditioning, plumbing, refrigeration, simple textiles, carpentry and construction.. are all well within reach of humanity even without all our fancy tools. I bet trains and walkable towns would make a big comeback in this age, as oil production would probably be reduced to a very tiny fraction of modern output. Certainly not enough to run the millions of cars on the road. And modern EV batteries? Highly doubt those could be manufactured easily, though they could possibly be scavenged. Those who emerge from the ashes would be using old technologies and any modern tech that could be scavenged from the pre-apocalypse society.
@Trazynn You just need a fire, so lumber can do for awhile in places that can set up wood plantations. Admittedly this definitely depends on if trees take more than a few generations to repopulate or not. They could also try to use alternative fuels. Like biowaste or garbage. People lucky enough to live by rivers could also make use of hydro power. Maybe some very lucky people could find a still functioning reservoir complete with electrical components.. though they'd need an actual team of very knowledgeable people to be able to get any sort of serious _power plant_ running again.
Also remember that in the event of a full scale societal collapse, if it last long enough for modern infrastructure to collapse as well the low hanging fruits of oil, gas and even large forests are gone. The chance we could ever rebuild to the point of today is very slim.
They don't think they can win, if they did then the war would have happened already. Also, it's not only up to the politicians to take on this decision, there's an entire chain of command that needs to approve the launch of the first volley of missiles before the presidents presses the big red button themselves. This is a strange game where the only winning move is not to play it.
It's absolutely insane how anyone could think this type of a response is justifiable for literally anything. To kill 80% of humanity who had nothing to do with the given conflict is next level. There isn't a single conflict we could possibly face with other nations that would justify this.
I would say this applies to every conflict that has ever occurred in which anyone, soldier or civilian, has died. The conflict is not between soldiers and civilians, but between leaders.
but let me pose you with a not so hypothetical problem, what if a nation is developing a nuclear weapon and constantly threatens and express their intention to destroy another nation completely. as the threatened nation that has nuclear weapon but too weak to stop the threat using other measures , what would you do? you know that if the threat isn't destroyed they will most certainly use their newly developed nuclear weapon to destroy you... or give it to a terrorist group to do it for them. they have been giving weapons to that terrorist group for years. what would you do?
@@handlehandle12322goes to show how inhumane some of our species are and how we gave to face the consequences of our stupid and asinine our ancestors have made smh
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“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice” -Robert Frost
Disregard sadness. Embrace destruction. None of us are going to get out of this life alive anyway. Live it and enjoy it and do what you can for others. That's really all there is to it. At least with nuclear death, we can all go out in a glorious fireball instead of rotting away to nothingness in an underfunded nursing home. Call me a nihilistic teenager if you want. but you all know this stuff to be true in the end.
It would certainly be the biggest news story of the century. The rest of us would just be reading it safely from our homes (assuming it was an accident or it doesn't escalate into nuclear war)
Yeah, I think I remember hearing that there was two nukes detonated in southern Japan 80 years ago, apparently it was pretty insignificant though it was quite tragic for the locals. Though it could’ve just been a small incident and the local news media could’ve exaggerated a little. We really don’t know, but it’s not like it really matters to us
I have studied these devices since I was a child... I was born at the end of the Cold War but just old enough to remember the fear of nukes... So I studied them to find any survivability... New Zealand looks better and better every year!
@@casjean8904 Yes I have... Both... Being from America, we're kinda conditioned nowadays to ignore the threat of nuclear war, but I never have taken my eye off that threat, and honestly think half of my nation are naive for it... Since we're all Hollywood brained, perhaps a new round of "The Day After..." Or "Threads" would do us some good...
Buuut if we survive till 10 years there will be less war theafts and you won't be thinking about nuclear war again but in 1000years nuclear weapons Ali be made again anyways
Damn you Heisenberg/Oppenheimer/Teller! edit: IDK WHY THE GUY BELOW ME IS SO MAD, it was just a joke I made trying to be funny! I don't condone death or murder, I condone jokes!
@@ryomaru2 stop it. it wasn't the scientists that decided to weaponize fission, it was governments that did that. people WITHOUT a background in science. stop villainizing science.
This. The last generations surviving WW2 is about to die and we're closer than ever to repeat it. I have no more faith in humanity anymore it's completely gone since covid. The fact that millions can just be witnesses to an insane person obsessed with power and greed and do nothing to stop it pushed that final nail in the coffin for me. I wonder if this is how people felt during the rise of nazi Germany.
Civilization would collapse, but the descendants of the survivors would rebuild. Some of them, anyway. Which is why we should construct Knowledge Arks with our collective knowledge, as well as history and arts so they can learn from our mistakes. One hopes.
But when the war before causes such a degree of disparity in terms of food produce and human resources they would build bigger nuclear arms much more faster. They have more incentive than us to protect what's left. They would most likely have even hesitation to launch the weapons than us because the world already has had so many hits that it wouldn't matter for a country like Argentina to bomb what's left of humankind and start the world over from their country.
Property prices have been increasing these last 10 years. We are in deep trouble in South Africa if the northern hemisphere people screw all of humanity with their obsession with war and total calamity 🙈
You're mistaking humanity's lack of desire to understand each other for inability to do so. We can all understand each other, but barriers like religion, language, culture and customs disallow nationalists from even considering it. Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat of our time, but nationalism is how we get to using them. Nationalism made Russia into the USSR, it's what makes China so dangerous, and it's what is currently fueling the wars between Russia/Ukraine, and India/Pakistan (also religion is a big part of that one) It's poisonous ideology, and exactly the kind of thing Republicans want you to adopt.
@@Crowald thanks for the input, but you’ve unintentionally backed my comment. you pointing out a political party as if they’re wrong and your ideology is righteous proves my comment. it’s very frightening indeed
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TBH. I hope my family and I just go in the blast. I wouldn't wish subsistence living in a post nuclear war world on anyone. This video also didn't cover nuclear fallout.
One thing I'll note for anyone who goes down the Prepper rabbit hole: A LOT of it, and I mean a LOT, is rooted in paranoid conspiracy theories, and is focused on preparing not so much for real-world-disaster scenarios but for disaster-movie scenarios. In particular, "prepper" materials tend to focus WAY too much time on how to defend yourself from hypothetical Mad Max esque roving gangs of raiders, as well as on hunting (which is only sustainable for a year tops in all but the most remote areas; if everyone hunts to survive, the wildlife population quickly collapses. Agriculture is an inescapable necessity for long-term survival), while spending much less time on the more mundane but infinitely more likely to be useful matters like treating disease or injuries without access to medical facilities, growing food without access to machinery or fertilizers, or working to rebuild communities. As a general rule--if the author of a book/article on survivalism has strong ties to any political movement, stay away.
As much as i love Kurzgesagt, Every single video is a variation of: nuclear war, space is deadly, immune system and killer virus. I would love for them to tackle more topics.
Given that they're aligned with Open Phil (and as a result, probably the concepts of Effective Altruism) - they'll probably focus on videos about prioritised global existential risks, and/or future-of-humanity-related topics. At least for a good while. Which I do appreciate - but I agree, it would be really cool to see some other topics (including the occasional quirky/lighthearted topic - I laughed out loud at the 'what if the world turned into gold' video', and one of my all-time faves is the 'beauty' video).
@@killcat1971 16 year olds play wargames with lead miniatures or on their gaming consoles/PCs and have more sense and know that they're only playing a game and not actually threating to destroy human civilisation and decimate the human race.
@@cosmicwartoad2587 16 year olds also block roads and make stupid choices without thinking about the consequences, there's a reason we limit their responsibilities.
@Lozzie74 its genuinely wild that we live in an era where we could utterly destroy civilization as we know it with the drop of a hat. or bomb, rather.
@@VoxyFr Human civilization and the Human species are two separate things. The human species would definitely not disappear in "a few minutes" after a nuclear war.
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"If you have more people than calories available, then in a few weeks you don't anymore."
So simple, so brutal.
because everybody took up sourdough baking, right?
If we gave up animal agriculture, we'd need a lot less space and resources for the same amount of calories... So that would definitely help in this scenario
@@physicsorca9491yea, but there would still me that one Guy Likes 'I ain't eatin those vegetables'.
not my problem@@naveyk
@@No.Good.NicknameThen he goes hungry until he eats vegetables. If he wants to starve himself to death, that’s his problem.
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Australia or New Zealand? Real estate? God I wish that were true
Housing crisis about to go even harder
Oh shoot, my rent will go up?
My only concern as an Australian regarding nuclear war is if China decided to fire one this way. Other than that we’d struggle with fuel.
We can finally use our useless population of camels bro@@lamsmiley1944
This is getting dangerously close to being a reality
but the human race would survive, maybe it's for the best!
@@FlagimirKramnik billions would die
No it's not. Nuclear weapons don't even exist. Government psyop/scare tactic
@@saccorhytus But the earth and enough people would survive. Great for climate change also.
Not neccisarily true. Some planets like mars have evidence they used to have water and arguably life and no longer have either. Sometimes drastic changes cannot be reversed @FlagimirKramnik
"Their nuclear-winter will be milder." This is pretty much the most positive sentence in the video.
I should move to Argentina...
@@rey_nemaattori Austrian painter knew where he is moving
@@YagoKatzen I had similar thoughts when I saw the title and thumbnail
Then follow by "Their might got invaded by other starving nations" 💀
Southern nations will ally to protect from the starving invaders. No one wants illegal immigrants right? (Unless they're you, then it's understandable and OK yes?)
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan
That's a great quote
More like 4000 matches. Last I checked, USA and Russia have around 4000 nukes each.
@@PapyrusEngineer does it really matter how many fuckin matches they have?! They drop one we all die
@@hellishcyberdemon7112I think it’s like 11000 tho
Sadly Carl didn't know what happens if you actually drop a match into petrol
“How humanity will” and not “How humanity would” is terrifying
They changed the OG title quite fast.
too terrifying they changed it lol
"how humanity will" implies humanity survives
"how humanity would" implies humanity does not survive bc it's a would be scenario
edit: someone below corrected my comment
Have you met us?
@@GotMyTowel42 No, "how humanity _wouldn't"_ or "how humanity won't" imply lack of survival.
"Will" vs "would" is the difference between implying the nuclear winter is going to happen, vs it hypothetically may happen, but may not.
This was eye-opening. I had no idea the aftermath could be even more devastating than the initial strike. Thank you for breaking down the long-term consequences-it's a grim reminder of why these weapons must never be used
How could you not kno this? The living will envy the dead. The climatic conditions distupted - not for the good. Radioactive snow falling in deserts, no rain on the rice fields and the protective Ozone layer blown to hell. That means everyone gets unfiltered sun radiation, not sunburn, Cancer. All the harbors flooded
The scariest thing is not what would happen, it's the fact that there are people that have the authority to give orders like that
Having these titanic arsenals requires maintenance and supply logistics, which is an industry of big, big money in the hands of very few people. All the STS and general DoD folk are essentially minimum wage slave labor, while fantastically well paid contractors slowly eat more and more funding.
The use of Nuclear Weapons has never been the point. We always fear it, but that fear is itself part of the money making equation and the perfect culpability shield. They never intend to use them, but instead continue increasing stockpiles, and that is increasing the absurd wealth these systems funnels from public to private hands.
That's the real war currently ongoing, and we've been losing it for 60 years.
@@BrandanLeeYeah but people can still use them. I wish nobody ever actually meant to, but people do, and we've come close
Also DoD being minimum wage slave labor is brutally true 💀
Also scarier, is that people have thought about this, and have been researching it. Now who do you think is paying the scientists to research this? Besides a philanthropist organization trying to convince everyone that we can't let this happen? Perhaps some rich powerful people that are PLANNING for it.
People = Biden or Trump; Putin.
Scary!
Not only that but the people manufacturing and stock piling these weapons are fully aware of what would happen if they ever used them and yet they continue to make more and are increasingly making more threats involving them. Like I don't care who you are or what country you come from but it's in none of our interests to go to nuclear war it's literally just the politicians being small minded. Like I can understand going to conventional war because I'm joining the marines but nuclear war makes no sense to me. It's the equivalent to a kid taking his ball home just before losing a game of football it's honestly embarrassing
Crazy that that about 200 people are pretty much responsible for it if it happens. They wouldn’t be the one’s starving or burning either
Would say more like 20.. (Presidents + Defense Ministers and Highest ranking generals)
This is so true and scary, we need to find a way to change this if it comes to war
I think they're pretty much doomed too.
Yeah, no. It will not be 200 people or 20 people fault. What are you even talking about? What about the hundrends of millions in the west voting idiots who cooperated with Putin's ways? What about the billions in the east directly or indirectly aiding Putin? Yeah, no, noone escapes fault. Not you, not you parents, not you relatives and not your friends and compatriots. It will be a collective fault.
and yet people are still supporting such ... people instead of forcing them out of office
"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself."
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I misread this in an emo way...
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Sad but true
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I love the music they use in their videos. It is so engaging with the topic!
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The worst part is convincing your insurance company that your radiation burns are not a pre-existing condition, and they should allow you to get treatment out-of-network, because your regular hospital was vaporized.
You must be an American. I live in Europe where we don't need to explain pre-existing conditions. Our hospitals will be just as vaporised though.
if anything europeans would be worse off seeing as how small Europe is and it would probs be a very big target if this hypothetical war was with Russia.. @@gohumberto
That's bad shit crazy dude
Imagine having to come up with the deductible or copay?
"I'm sorry, I cant pay you right now, my savings have all been...
liquidated."
The fact that you still think your insurance company exist is amusing.
the upside of living in London: chances of surviving more than 1 second after that first bright light in the sky is close to zero, rather than starving to death
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If you have not read the books of (Daniel chapters 7-12), (Ezekiel chapters 37-39) (Matthew chapters 24:1-51 + 25:1-30), (1 Thessalonians chapters 1-5), (2 Thessalonians chapters1-3) and (Revelation chapters 6-19), now would be a good time. They will explain a lot about what is going on right now!
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It is my hope and prayer that people would repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before all these things take place, because it is going to be very, very scary if you do not and you decide to wait and see what happens.
yeah, if they ever do end up falling i would rather be under one than live in the hellscape that follows.
Plus a bright light in the sky would probably be a welcome sight for the split second we see it. Just an excited "Is this that 'sun' thing I've heard people tell of?" And then boom
@@davidjennings2179 Apparently my explanation was so bad I think I'm super smart, so I edited my comment.
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Yeah... nothing rips you out of a gloomy mood as comparing your situation with the sheer existential dread of a post apocalyptic world.
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Argentina: I wish I was the most developed nation on Earth
Genie: As you wish
As an argentinian, I would despair that THAT was the reason we reached the top. There is no future worth that much death.
Milei is already making it the most developed nation on Earth, no need for that.
Good joke 😆@@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak
We still wouldn't have the highest GDP
@@empanada869 Leftie detected, opinion invalidated.
What really sucks is nuclear war depends on only a handful of people
It depends on every single person who votes for people who are committed to keeping nuclear weapons.
I wrote to all candidates standing in the upcoming election in my area to find out their policies and views on this. I refuse to have any part in electing anyone who supports nuclear weapons. It's the biggest issue facing us right now, above all else because literally nothing else will matter if we don't do all we can to try to prevent this.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559I agree but that really only applies to certain countries. People like Putin and Xi Jinping can’t just simply be voted out of office.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559 "Who votes for people"
Tell that to the Russians, who chose to have a dictator who wants to "Restore" an empire in a vain attempt at glory, not minding sacrificing hundreds of thousands of his own and Ukrainian lives.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559 Have you considered the reality that attempting disbarment can actually increase the odds of a nuclear war? If you fully disarm and an opponent does not; they are actually more likely to decide to use their nukes when they know they can't be nuked backed.
The best you can do is an arms limit treaty; similar to what was done with the soviet union; where you both agree to greatly limit the number of nukes while not eliminating them. If you want to get into the specifics, we can look at game theory (a branch of mathematics) to see what is different between the two scenarios.
@@internationallanguageofdan3559 Ukraine has cancelled its nuclear arsenal in 90s. And look at it now! If you want peace, prepare for war
thanks for giving me some unbelievably unbearable dread right before i go to sleep! same time next week?
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LOL
Distract yourself by remembering your tongue is too big for your mouth.
The thought of what happens after a nuclear war is terrifying. It's hard to even imagine the scale of devastation and suffering that would follow.....
"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself"
That is exactly what it's like. Gahdamn were dumb.
You think we're dumb now?
Baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Or if it's a fusion bomb, it's like dropping an incredibly small star
Its not that we are collectively dumb, but its how we view eachother and our believes. We kill eachother because we simply dont like eachother. Thats the dumb part.
@@vaylonkenadellHumans have always been extremely and embarrassingly dumb.
Hasn't even happened yet and your grammer is terrible + you are being dramatic. Who's the dumb one lil bro
I went to the atomic bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima last year and got a small glimpse at how awful a single nuclear weapon could be.
If a nuclear war did happen I pray i would be one of the lucky people to instantly be turned to dust. Some of the most horrific things i read and saw were from the aftermath of the explosion. Nuclear weapons are truly terrible.
Fun fact: our modern nukes are in some cases more than 200 times deadlier than the nuke dropped on hiroshima
@@superzockertvyt9630nah definitely not a "fun" fact 💀
I've been to the a-bomb museum too. it was profoundly humbling and in many ways deeply disturbing. We even met a very elderly survivor of the blast and saw some of the scars she still carried. Nukes are extremely cruel and indiscriminate weapons; the irony is that they are also almost the pinnacle of human achievement, intelligence and perseverance. We had nukes and airplanes that could carry them thousands of miles before both of the Wright brothers had died. We have so much ability and potential, just not the ability (yet) to resist our hubris.
And I wonder, what it would take to stop army folk placing bets over which testicle would explode first when bound with wet bamboo; or folk that would face slavery and torture that only the Nazis could admire. Suddenly, Boom!
The two bombs dropped in Japan are two relatively small bombs. By today's standard, they can be qualified as tactical weapons if not having the massive dead weights.
Its crazy how a simple missunderstanding could end us all
Nobody is going to launch nukes over a misunderstanding
@@kuturak Man you were in one of the deepest moments of the cold war. He probably saved most of us and our world but it would have not been only a misunderstanding. There was a whole world tense situation at the base of it.
@@Penta_Penguin_237 Also because the USSR thought the Able Archer exercises was to mask the buildup for an invasion.
@@kuturak The US had similar incidents in ' 79 and '80. With the latter one showing a more credible launch, and only really getting a more thorough check because of the similar incident in '79
i mean look whats happening, usa+nato are fighting a proxy war with russia in ukraine, its already the closest we ever been in human history to this bullshit going off any script.
I wonder if this has anything to do with billionaires building bunkers en mass and globalists agenda of keeping world population under one billion... :/ scary times we are living in.
Feels like this could start any min now.
Nothing ever happens
it could have started any minute for the last 70 years, it's chill.
Trump will end Earth.
@@harrymustari he didn't during his first term and Biden has just allowed Ukraine to strike Russia with US missiles soooo
@@mordor1779to you perhaps
This video makes me want to go hug my loved ones and never let go
So you would all starve to death even without nuclear war. Nice
Seriously..
And or stock up on certain things just Incase.
nah bro what i learnt from this video is that we humans are assholes
After that video you suppose to do anything that Russia or another terrorists want while lying paralyzed by fear.
The fact that Kurzgesagt didn't put an explanation for how unlikely this is at the end scared me.
Yeah I think it’s a bit irresponsible really. None of this is actually going to happen. It’s simply not in the interest to make it happen for any armed state, it will never bring a ‘win’ for a warring side. It’s barely even worth considering.
It only takes a few people pressing a button ...
We all thought that a virus can't escape a lab. But it did.
yeah but sometimes people just dont give a sh... In the end we're just humans - Crazy and pathetic sometimes@@aquiatic
@@aquiatic Any sane, rational leader would never do it.
But unfortunately we have multiple nuclear armed or close to armed countries led by people who are not sane and rational. I couldn't begin to guess the actual chance of this happening, but it is definitely non-zero, and we should try to do something about it.
We are being conditioned to accept this catastrophe during our life time. If you have a closer look at this channel's contents, you can see a trend of "end of day" scenarios.
"A gigantic mushroom cloud rises over the destruction like a demon throning over its perverse work."
That simile legit sent a chill up my spine.
I was really hoping they would animate a skull or demon in the mushroom cloud when they said that
This is why we need to stop authoritarian regimes
it seems like everytime we create a new stronger weapon it was all to prevent take overs from happing so how long can the nuclear bomb last before they are dated by war standards and have something else to worry about.
@@MikkelDevs First we need to stop the people in our own countries who want to sell out to those authoritarian regimes. That's priority one, but as soon as that's dealt with we focus on the regimes directly.
@@killman369547 Yes correct
Here after an ICBM was reportedly used in an armed conflict for the first time ever
it wasn't an icbm, it was only mid range, but yea we really need to stop the escalation. Russia is not bluffing
@@rphb5870 If you give them what they want when they escalate, you only encourage future escalation. Trying to deescalate by giving in to escalatory rhetoric ironically only makes future conflict more likely.
@@airlynx307 so in other words: we have to destroy the world in order to save the world?
But see, Russia is not the ones who escalates. It is always America that escalates. Since day one this entire conflict have been driven by Ameirca. In Ukraine it started with the cia instigated coup in 2014, and the installation of the puppet regime. For eight years it did horrible atrocities to the civilian in Donbas, while Russia tried to find diplomatic solutions.
But a precondition for diplomacy is a mutual understanding of limitations. And just like thy attitude is an example of, the west, (meaning America and his puppets) have the audacity to think that they are almighty. That they can simply dictate terms to anyone, and never themselves have to make concessions.
At the end war became inevitable, as America refused to stop its march east.
This have to do with a fundamental difference in how America and Russia sees the ending of the cold war.
Russia sees it as a Repprochement, a way to rebuild lost connections, and hoped it would create a new world of shared understandings. America saw it as a surrender, as them winning, and as the victorious side they had to press their victory to the max.
An important aggreement that America did not honour was the Gorbatjov-Bush promise that Nato would not expand one inch east.
But now they are right at Russia's doorstep
NATO should have been dissolved after the Warsaw pact dissolved, not expanded. It is an extremely provocative stance.
With Ukraine it became existential. a simply matter of survival for the Russian federation
That is how Russia sees it. Nato as a hostile alliance bent on their destruction..
with the rethoric that comes out from the west, how can we even say that is wrong?
nato have to back off, if they don't we end with nuclear war.
I couldn't agree more with you. That's what Russia realized and now that's what they are doing. Nato wants more each year, they gotta be stopped. @@airlynx307
They only asked that Ukraine should not be allowed to use those weapons because it is being operated my NATO troops , which can lead to escalations @@airlynx307
As the Kelvedon Hatch bunker says, “If you survive, after a few days you’ll start to feel a little bit ill, and after a few weeks, you’d be a little bit dead.”
You do know hydrogen bombs don’t have the radiation effect as a normal nuclear bomb. The explosion is much more destructive, but it doesn’t have the radiation.
@@MLM68 I do, yes, but it’s a good line.
Which video is this from please?
tell that to the Russians
@@MLM68 What if you survived a Neutron bomb?
As Einstein once said, "Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap"
Damn
because mice aren't capable
@@DG_5856Lets use our imagination to imagine a mouse has the ability to build a mousetrap.
@@fish8415 They actually have it since many species of rodents create their dens near rivers since the terrain is easier and often provide more food. They derebely decide to risk to die in case of a flood that live a little harder life somewhere else. So yes, mice can create mousetrap and they actually do it
@@fish8415 if the mice are competing for resources they will design mousetraps, its common sense. And since resources are limited at some point they will compete for the scraps whether they like it or not
When the voice of Kurzgesagt says "ok", it's usually a not-ok scenario that follows
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Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
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@@JoshiboiyGod is terrible at creating sinless people.
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And not even so much as a mention of the radioactive fallout.
So this video could be being optimistic.
Basically if Nuclear war happens you will want to die in the initial blast, quick and fast without even knowing what hit you.
or be a New Zealander
Nah Nuclear Winter is fake
@accessthemainframe4475
As an aussie, neither us nor you nor both combined would stave off the resulting food crisis invasion from the rest of the developed world. We'd both be heavily invaded
Personally I'd want to fight it out and survive against the odds, but I can see the appeal.
What happens in NZ?
Shit. That line "if you have more people than calories, in a few weeks you won't anymore" made me rethink my life for a good minute. That was honestly terrifying asf.
Edit: Dayum that's a lot of likes and also, human meat!? The greater question is about the morality then
That thought has terrified me for years.
And inaccurate. It's more like months.
@@shy_dodecahedron people can't survive without food for months
Just reminds me of GAZA
we are always about 3 meals away from anarchy
Imagine surviving a nuclear apocalypse and when you finally go outside to get food you get killed by deathclaws
lmao
just like the simulations!
I'm getting gutted by a mole rat
Im gonna be looking for my son
@@Fr3nzY_17I'll just be trying to deliver mail bro
I personally fear starving to death more than just instantly getting vaporized
Bro I already had my existential crisis today, I don't need a second one
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"The global death toll could rise to about 5 billion"
Kurzgesagt: "Extremely unpleasant"
Well it wouldn't be pleasant
"Minor Inconvenience"
Lol
He's british, it's understandable.
In Russia, winter eats you.
What scares me the most isn't the fact that we have nuclear weapons. It's the fact that there are people in positions of power who are crazy enough to use them. There have been several scares over the decades since nuclear weapons were invented. One really good example is a Russian officer on a submarine refused to launch nuclear torpedoes against the US Navy during the Cuban missile crisis. Then there was the Russian officer at a early warning site that picked up five incoming missiles. The warning was false, and attributed to flaws in the system. The world would be a very different place of those two men acted rather than thought things through. The world needs people who think before they act, not just automatically react to a threat, real or perceived.
We got so hilariously close to nuclear war during the second half of the 20th century that it's beyond a miracle that we're still here
Yes, like Harry Truman did.
To be honest, I think those two men deserve a few statues.
@@adhdmonster1369 more than basically any world leader tbh. Without people like them, the world as we know it simply wouldnt exist
Exactly. Strongman ideology is a threat for this reason in so many different example scenarios
after watching this my mind is on fire
I can’t think of how much fucking emotional and mental pain and stress that everyone would experience
Yay :D
If nuclear armeggedon ever happened, the generation that recovered enough to have nuclear weapons would probably not remember how bad nuclear winter was or care what happened maybe 1000 years ago. They would totally rebuild them
Edit: 1000 years is hyperbole. There are no good estimates for how long it would take to recover from all-out nuclear war.
Probably like people nowadays looking at black death in Europe & how deadly it was. Or Mongol invasion in Eurasia & it's effect after many centuries.
W wouldn't need that long to rebuild. There are a few key technologies that lead to our technology and population to skyrocket. Remember that southern areas might not get destroyed at all. They will starve and only a small percentage might survive but what will survive almost completely is the technology in these areas and all the books with the knowledge to built them. Getting to the point to build the next nuclear weapons will not take more than a few generations.
@@hackfleischking5162ehh it’s probably take longer ao much off out technology relies on the global supply chain if its gone it’s significantly harder to get all the rare metals needed for making computers plus the labs needed to make them
@@tux_the_astronaut The computers aren't gone, all it'd take is building ships or using what you already have and going to these now very empty, very devastated areas and digging through the garbage. You'd find more than enough functional pieces of machinery to rebuild a country from salvage work, and anything non functional is still often metal for the main important components so you can just reforge them anyway. The gigantic factories that have even larger machines would in fact survive, unless they were directly nuked.
It's not a case of "we lose everything forever oh nooooooez" it's more of a case of if a nation has the endurance to survive the starvation period and salvage what they need from the dead zones before anyone else. Those who do, would become the new global superpower very quickly.
You also have to keep in mind, the temperature around the equator will also drop to a comfortable level which means farming will boom there for a decade or two, which means these countries will have a boom of food and supplies. Which also means that when things stabilize they will also have a crash after the fact if they don't build an industrial base to maintain it before then
@@tux_the_astronaut but a country that survices relatively untouched would be much better suited to going and just plain invading the well know rare metals and other resources as they would be in a much better position to just claim it
"It's easy to calculate how many people can be alive on Earth... If you have more people than calories, then in a few weeks you don't anymore". The way how cynical yet unquestionably straightforward these calculations are sends shivers down my spine. It's like you can try and do anything to survive but the truth is - if there is no food, then there is no food. And you can do nothing about it
Yeah, the ability to produce so much food is humanity's foundational superpower. Everything relies on it. Nuclear war takes that away and we instantly fare no better than animals, where food is a daily struggle.
You can try the same principle when your fridge is empty but you're hungry: close the fridge, lower standards, try again.
When hungry, the dog will start to look very tasty. Waterfowl and small game will be hunted to extinction.
Eventually people will be boiling treebark or eat tulip bulbs, just to get some nutrients.
There's little you can do against this, I've got a small food supply of a couple of months ever since the lock downs, but bridging 10+ years is nigh impossible, I'd need a second and probably a 3rd garage to store that much food...let alone keep it edible & concealed as to not get mugged... it'll be truly hell on earth, just a lot colder than hell.
@@rey_nemaattori I get what you're saying but I don't think I could ever eat my dog no matter how hungry I was, they're man's best friend!
@@JordanBeagle if you get hungry enough you'll resort to humans as well, at some point your brain doesn't care about how much you love that dog, at some point your brain just wants food
thats what is happening in gaza as we speak
No one person should have this power over the whole planet. It's not just humanity but every living thing that's effected.
We need the big black guy from the Dark Knight prison boat to throw the nuclear detonation codes out of a window
@Io_Trading ... they do. Yes, someone like the US president or Putin only have the nukes of their own country, but it's not like nobody else is going to launch if either of them does.
@Io_Trading Because they have SO much reason to stop us from being stupid.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I think they need our blood to grow grass or some shit, I don't remember The War of the Worlds very well.
Funny how we invest money into space technology to destroy asteroids heading towards Earth but we also invest money into creating our own.
My grandfather was one of the first US observers sent into Hiroshima.
We asked him why he never made a bomb shelter. He said"you arent going to want to survive that, itd be worse than just dying outright"
Sometimes death is a mercy
Talking from someone who has mental health issues on top of a world going to hell, i would do the un alive the minute ww3 is announced.
considering that it was the US itself that made a hell in Japan, so your grandpa had to think about his least painful options.
shameless bastards.
@@danny089-theodeoron4 actually in life and death stations you're brain well want to live even if you don't so if a depressed and suicidal person experience ww3 its gonna give him a reason to survive crazy right ? Conscious and subconscious are widely different lol.
@@rami0036disagreed, i'm glad you are not on the same issues i am suffering from, and you probably don't even read the statistics of how many people off themselves even today and all across history. It seems like you believe this topic doesn't exist and that somehow, the brain will fool itself into survival... sad... tragic... people off themselves every day due to much less of a reason than that, and no, i know myself more than you think you know me, i know my limits and my beliefs, so if push comes to shove, i will off it...
“If you have more people than calories then, within in a few weeks, you don’t anymore.” I suppose that’s one chilling way to put it.
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Nuclear war explodes.
The guy who lives in Argentina: "Great!"
Sees a US aircraft carrier: "oh, crap"
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Civil war will be there already.
Brazilian immigration and all latin american will be in they border.
1. All carriers would have been destroyed in the initial exchange
2. The logistics required to project power across an ocean are nontrivial even in peacetime. This would be flat out impossible to do in a postwar scenario.
Well, we have a US carrier arriving here in may so... Fuck, here we go again.
@@isodoublet 1. No. Carriers are mostly out at sea. And they would not be the targets. Most would still be around, unless there was a major naval battle prior to the big exchange. That said, your second point is still true, so there's that.
5:12 "if you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks you DONT anymore" - that might have been the darkest sentence (and totally accurate of course) I've ever heard from Kurzgesagt.
It's shocking how direct it is speaking of a very dark matter
fueling my nuclear war anxiety one video at a time! keep up the terrifying work!
I used to worry but you'll die with in the blink of an eye, won't feel nothing! Anyways you'll go to the after life
don’t worry nuclear war is inevitable you really think our world leaders are dumb enough to start one? that’s why one hasn’t started yet the cold war was the closest it’s been to an actual world war 3 maybe a tensions are high now too but not as much as before
lol, that’s the biggest of ur worries? Must have a calm lifestyle. It’d be over instantly for most of us what’s the point of worrying about it
@andreimitrica77 why are you saying that as if the world ending is a minor inconvenience? 😭
Lol yeah I know what you mean
Yeah we are dead 8:28 if countries decide to do a nuclear war all im doing is praying that i go to heaven
Matthew 24:6 is happening now , it’s better if repent now so you can get into heaven, please ask forgiveness to The Lord Jesus and repent what is repentance? It’s turning away from your sin not doing it. We are closer than ever now to nuclear war. Please repent now before it’s too late
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The 3-year volcanic Winter that started in 536 halved Sweden's population. 10 years of Winter with an over-reliance on imported food sounds so much worse.
Probably like how volcanic eruption of Mt. Toba (Nowadays turned into Toba lake in Indonesia) almost wiped out humanity back 74,000 years ago.
Yet even back then, humanity was a hunter-gathered society. So with our society today deeply rely on technology, the effect could be much worse.
@@haikalmiftah2529 Or much better , since now we are not so reliant on weather like our past hunter and gatherer selvs
they we're ZERO in terms of tech. don't compare them with today's advancement
@@gscsilvavaladares7065tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
Nuclear winter in todays society is a myth
Conclusion: Don't drop nuclear bombs
And every generation needs to learn this. We must never forget.
Conclusion: Klaus Fuchs is an asshole
Yeah, tell Iran, but find an argument that doesn’t involve “people will die” bc in their ideology wanting to live is heretical and perverse.
Why was the spread of radioactive particles in the atmosphere not mentioned? A very serious problem.
Tell that to Israel and his samson option lol
After the nukes drop you hear "war, war never changes" and then a several minute long cutscene plays as it loads you into a new map
patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
@@Agent4077we won't go quietly, legion can count on that
At least some of us would then finally find out if you can survive 3rd degree burns and live on for a couple of centuries.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more
One and 19 more
Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red
Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip
21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death
There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
The rich and government wuldnt Even tell us let alone sound the alarm... That's how cowards the government is
watching this, he doesn't even count in the radiation that comes with detonation
8:50 So that old internet cartoon was right after all, Australia will be sitting down there saying "WTF Mate?"
AAHHHH MOTHERLAND!
But I am le tired...
"I turn around for an eighth of a second and what do you do but fuckin nuke yourselves"
Well, take a nap. AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!! @@SikGamer70
And the insects shall inherit the earth.
"On the Beach" is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
In my top ten movies. Saw it as a kid. Made a huge impression.
It's also horrendously inaccurate
@@abyscidis The novel was published in 1957, no need to critique it with 2024 standards of authenticity. Besides it was mostly a story about people's reaction to their impending deaths.
The relative social cohesion even towards the end. Reflects a completely different society. You'd expect barbarism. Looting. Complete destruction. It was all very.....orderly. A product of a more homogeneous, high trust culture? Wishful thinking?
@@deanoost9599 In our modern world, we don't need impending extinction to have barbarism, looting, and complete destruction. We get those on every day that ends in "Y".
I would argue that Western civilization collapsed over the course of the late 20th century. I suspect that's what Chinese historians will teach in the following decades as they inherit the globe from the imploded ruins of the former American empire. Hopefully they learn from what happened to us.
Love the uplifting and positive content.
It is, because it assumes it would just be russia, china, and the US lobbing nukes at each other. The nukes are being launched at everyone. That's what makes MAD scary. MAD was formulated that if someone launches nukes at someone else, they launch on everyone else too. Allies and enemies alike. Nuclear and non-nuclear countries too. Australia's getting nuked. Argentina is getting it. The fallout over the next decade will poison all fresh water for decades, and the dust will leave an irradiated layer in all soil and sediment, even that in the oceans, river deltas will be toxic and most marine life will be dead within 10 years. Algae may go extinct if the nuclear material doesn't kill it.
This video is best case scenario. Not MAD scenario where every habitable spot on earth is targeted for a nuking.
The real scenario is that everyone dies in less than a decade, and so does most life. P-T level event. Optimistically, humanity survives for another 75 years in deep underground shelters with food supplies, but nutrient deficiencies will add up over time. You can only recycle your waste and water so much before you run out of nutrients to support a small population.
getting hit with an asteroid would be less destructive, unless it melts the crust.
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I feel like a psychopath for enjoying these videos, and finding them interesting, whilst not fearing anything. Either psychopathic behavior, or me being REALLY stupid.
It’s been a while since my last serious existential crisis. Thanks Kurzgesagt!
Relax, you won't live to see WW3
As an Australian, I’m not worried. We may even get some snow during winter for a few years.
@@victorhugo3952Putin: Hold my nuclear weapon
Yep, we're doomed
If you think about it, it really is amazing how humanity has progressed from sword fight, to muskets and finally to an age where we can destroy ourselfves in a span of few minutes.
It took us longer to go from copper/bronze swords to steel swords than from steel swords to thermonuclear missiles
Einstein is rumoured to have said: "I know not what weapons will be used to fight world war 3, but I know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".
@@CircusFoxxothat’s actually so cool to think about. For 6.000 years the most advanced version of transportation of a human would be a man on a horse. How long until we have giant space ships
And the method has stayed the same at its very core, we still are throwing rocks at eachother. We just found shinier rocks to throw.
@@pain002150 to 300 years until giant spaceships?
Well this was uplifting and didn’t raise my existential dread at all
There is a good chance that nuclear war will never happen. And if it does, nothing matters anymore, so all we can do is live our lives as if it would never happen.
yeah its like whatever.... watch calr sagan Cosmos tho, ok ? You will get a glimpse of objective reality and hope!
Idk, the idea that humanity could survive ten years of winter seem plenty uplifting to me.
Sure, most of us would be dead. But the species would endure.
Essentially, we could survive our best attempts at destroying ourselves- and in a wierd way, that's actually reassuring.
When you get right down to it, life on this tiny little mud ball we call Earth could be wiped out at any moment even if we never made a bad decision. A star could go super nova and hit us with X-rays, we could get hit with a decent sized rock, a critical species might die out do to something unforseen causing total ecosystem collapse. We could get exposed to the wrong kind of space dust. We could get hit by a gamma ray burst. There are probably plenty of ways we could get wiped out that we can't even concieve of.
Life it fragile- and our planet is less than a speck compared to the rest of the cosmos. We could get snuffed out and no one out their would be the wiser- but at least knowing that it's unlikely that we will actually manage to completely destroy ourselves is nice.
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Brother, hang in there! I grew up in the U.S. during the (1960s-'70s) 1st Cold War, living in Amarillo, TX. (where there was a SAC B-52 Base): then (after Amarillo AFB Closure/ Deactivation) in Memphis, TN. (where the 3rd largest U.S. DoD Defense ( Strategic Supplies Stockpile) Depot was then). Both areas are on the Soviet/ Russian 1st Strike/ Priority Tagets List: I've lived most of my life "Under the Sword of Democles". When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, and the Warsaw Pact dissolved many of us in the West breathed a Giant Sigh of Relief.
We believed we had dodged the bullet & the world was going to thrive.
Now, in 2024, we've come full-circle, not knowing if today the world was going to end in 6hrs.
GOD Bless, Love & Protect us All.
You know its serious when your here when the world is going into world war 3
The thought of weapons with the capability to obliterate anything is scary…
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"If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks YOU DON'T ANYMORE" damn it hits hard
Theoretically people can last about three months without any food, but only three days without clean water.
Idiot how you last when there is poisonous gas everywhere, no food and no trust even in own family
There would be roving gangs of cannibals... my assumption is that the bigger, taller people who consume the most calories would get eaten first.
That line was SO DARK! and SO FUNNY!
Bullocks.
Going out in atomic fire sounds like a much kinder fate than having to live in post mushroom cloud Argentina, or even last decade Argentina, for that matter. You should be thankful for what you have.
Greetings from Argentina.
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Thank K the pj cancer is gone.
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Or "How Argentina became the world's leading Economy" 🎉
@@darrenmxThe clicks on that vid will be so lit. I can already see all the sponsorships. Mr Beast: "How I have managed to make Argentina one of the richest countries in the world while also solving overpopulation and the warming of our planet!!!!1!!"
If nuclear war does happen I’ll officially make the brotherhood of steel a reality
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Yes, an incredibly organized and high technology possessing fascist cult will magically spring into existence after a nuclear war. Not terribly long ago, I bought a Brotherhood of Steel embroidered patch to sew onto my jacket. But then I threw it away because I didn't want anyone to think that I was a fascist asshole. Which is what the BOS is.
@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 sounds like you're putting a lot of real world emphasis on a video game and making some assumptions about how much people care about non veteran patches
If you wear patches that are neither national park or military , nobody cares lol
Lastly ..... AD VICTORIAM
As someone that lives in Australia, I see this as an absolute win.
Please don't eat me.
As an Australian that knows we are allied with the US and other NATO nations and would likely join any war they are in, thus making us a potential target for a nuclear strike, just be sure to live outside of major urban areas :)
In the latest Scientific American there were some shocking simulations of how nuclear fallout from just ONE coordinated nuclear attack on US nuke silos would affect the radiation environment in the USA. Long story short - depending on the wind direction the "50-100% fatal" smoke plumes would either spread around to cover half of the continent or would form long smoke columns spreading from one end of America to the other. If that happens on a global scale the deadly radiation cloud would cover the entirety of the northern hemisphere and it would eventually also cross the equator. There is a story called "On the Beach" that discusses this scenario from the perspective of Melbourne (it was also adapted to 2 movies).
Australia is a nuclear target of China! Your happy of what? GOSH, what are people ignorant.
@@julianlowrise4981Wasting nukes on us is pointless, ever nuke not aimed at another world power is another chance for them to strike back
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I've read that the survivors wouldn't be able to rebuild as most of the easily accessible resources that boot-strapped humanity to where it is now are gone.
That's true, but they'd also have things that humanity had to develop from nothing, so they wouldn't necessarily start from 0. Like language, and an already standardized number counting arithmetic system. Especially if those nearly untouched nations in the southern hemisphere were able to keep all their infrastructure and knowledge.
@@dragon_nammialso, things like metal would be widely available to scavenge, rather than having to mine it all out of the ground again.
Biggest one would be fossil fuels, we would have to find a new way of producing energy because the low hanging fruit of oil, coal, etc. is long gone already.
@LouisE-mp8lx I think humanity would be thrown back to the Era of steam engines, or slightly before then at worst. We also have science pretty well figured out, with stuff like the periodic table and the Standard Model of physics. With stuff like patents being irrelevant, restarting human development probably could happen within a couple generations.
Still horrible of course, and especially for the immediate survivors. I suspect more advanced technologies like advanced pharmaceuticals and modern digital electronics would be out of reach for awhile. Basically anything requiring advanced manufacturing. But people could maintain a decent standard of living as long as they had food.
Air conditioning, plumbing, refrigeration, simple textiles, carpentry and construction.. are all well within reach of humanity even without all our fancy tools. I bet trains and walkable towns would make a big comeback in this age, as oil production would probably be reduced to a very tiny fraction of modern output. Certainly not enough to run the millions of cars on the road. And modern EV batteries? Highly doubt those could be manufactured easily, though they could possibly be scavenged.
Those who emerge from the ashes would be using old technologies and any modern tech that could be scavenged from the pre-apocalypse society.
@@dragon_nammi You need coal for steam engines.
@Trazynn You just need a fire, so lumber can do for awhile in places that can set up wood plantations. Admittedly this definitely depends on if trees take more than a few generations to repopulate or not. They could also try to use alternative fuels. Like biowaste or garbage. People lucky enough to live by rivers could also make use of hydro power. Maybe some very lucky people could find a still functioning reservoir complete with electrical components.. though they'd need an actual team of very knowledgeable people to be able to get any sort of serious _power plant_ running again.
Also remember that in the event of a full scale societal collapse, if it last long enough for modern infrastructure to collapse as well the low hanging fruits of oil, gas and even large forests are gone. The chance we could ever rebuild to the point of today is very slim.
That any politicians can actually think this is a scenario where they win is pure madness.
Putin does
They don't think they can win, if they did then the war would have happened already.
Also, it's not only up to the politicians to take on this decision, there's an entire chain of command that needs to approve the launch of the first volley of missiles before the presidents presses the big red button themselves.
This is a strange game where the only winning move is not to play it.
@@biggestnibbaBiden does
@@lloyan_ bullshit Biden isn't the one threatening nuclear war. No American is. No Chinese is either. Only Russia.
We just explained US vs Russia in 4 words
It's absolutely insane how anyone could think this type of a response is justifiable for literally anything. To kill 80% of humanity who had nothing to do with the given conflict is next level. There isn't a single conflict we could possibly face with other nations that would justify this.
Humans hate.
I would say this applies to every conflict that has ever occurred in which anyone, soldier or civilian, has died. The conflict is not between soldiers and civilians, but between leaders.
but let me pose you with a not so hypothetical problem, what if a nation is developing a nuclear weapon and constantly threatens and express their intention to destroy another nation completely. as the threatened nation that has nuclear weapon but too weak to stop the threat using other measures , what would you do? you know that if the threat isn't destroyed they will most certainly use their newly developed nuclear weapon to destroy you... or give it to a terrorist group to do it for them. they have been giving weapons to that terrorist group for years.
what would you do?
It's also interesting that it's India VS Pakistan that might make it happen. I have no idea what's going on over there.
@@handlehandle12322goes to show how inhumane some of our species are and how we gave to face the consequences of our stupid and asinine our ancestors have made smh
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been watching here for years as well
Literally propaganda
@@S.O.N.E when?
@@S.O.N.E hahaha you probably saw in this video an insult to Russia and Putin
4:27 ay that’s me
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“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice”
-Robert Frost
DUDE this is no longer in the metaphoric sense .
exactly@@scratch7996
Fire
Disregard sadness. Embrace destruction. None of us are going to get out of this life alive anyway. Live it and enjoy it and do what you can for others. That's really all there is to it. At least with nuclear death, we can all go out in a glorious fireball instead of rotting away to nothingness in an underfunded nursing home. Call me a nihilistic teenager if you want. but you all know this stuff to be true in the end.
What?
At 2:00 it is quite scary to know that if a Nuclear bomb were to denote in a modern city it would be considered a "local tragedy".
It would certainly be the biggest news story of the century. The rest of us would just be reading it safely from our homes (assuming it was an accident or it doesn't escalate into nuclear war)
You mean funny? I laughed at the idea of neighbouring towns reading this like some simple weekly regional gossip
Yeah, I think I remember hearing that there was two nukes detonated in southern Japan 80 years ago, apparently it was pretty insignificant though it was quite tragic for the locals. Though it could’ve just been a small incident and the local news media could’ve exaggerated a little. We really don’t know, but it’s not like it really matters to us
This is like monaco nuking san marino
It is local cus u can do the same with planes
I have studied these devices since I was a child... I was born at the end of the Cold War but just old enough to remember the fear of nukes... So I studied them to find any survivability... New Zealand looks better and better every year!
have you read 'on the beach'? or watched the movie? new zealand looks good. ( for awhile anyway)
@@casjean8904 Yes I have... Both... Being from America, we're kinda conditioned nowadays to ignore the threat of nuclear war, but I never have taken my eye off that threat, and honestly think half of my nation are naive for it... Since we're all Hollywood brained, perhaps a new round of "The Day After..." Or "Threads" would do us some good...
Buuut if we survive till 10 years there will be less war theafts and you won't be thinking about nuclear war again but in 1000years nuclear weapons Ali be made again anyways
I meant nuclear weapons not Ali weapons
If you really studie it, will you think it will actually happened? (Help me im scared )
8:54 I’m not surprised Australia would survive they have a bunch of weird things they have to deal with
"Eventually, when they rebuild civilization, will they ever build nuclear weapons again?"
My brain shouted DUHHHHHH
yes of course they will, and for good reason
Humans will most likely build them. There are always those who refuse to listen.
Mankind will never stop to find a way to extinct itself.
Maybe it's for the better.
What about it would be a good reason?
@@colorpg152Weapons are never made for good reasons. It's made for destruction
imagine hating people so much that you create a weapon that would damn everyone to hell
“I hate you so much I will blow all of us to Hell”.
Not just human, but flora and fauna would also
Men are good at that. Especially greedy or power hungry ones.
Like Oppenheimer quoted, after the first atomic bomb test: "I am become DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS."
It's me
Australia being a safe heaven in the outbreak of nuclear war always makes me think of Shute's dystopian novel On The Beach.
Dude. I've read it years ago and still have chills from that novel.
sorry man but aussie is in aukus so they put themselves nuclear target on their head for russia and china
@@Black_Ace14Like the great powers wouldn’t send a couple of nukes to the southern countries just to prevent them becoming the next superpowers.
Thank fuck I live here the heat is horrible but I'll take that over nuclear oblivion any day if the week
sorry man, but aussie is in aukus, so it mean aussie choose to be nuclear target for russia and china
Well Well Well… Look at what clip got recommended in my UA-cam, what a right timing
Nuclear weapons feel like something we discovered way too early
honestly
Ever since the invention of guns, we've been on a one way march towards self destruction.
Problem is we keep getting more Putins that think they're Napoleon in the 18th century and try to conquer the World!
Damn you Heisenberg/Oppenheimer/Teller!
edit: IDK WHY THE GUY BELOW ME IS SO MAD, it was just a joke I made trying to be funny! I don't condone death or murder, I condone jokes!
@@ryomaru2 stop it. it wasn't the scientists that decided to weaponize fission, it was governments that did that. people WITHOUT a background in science. stop villainizing science.
9:34 Yes. Civilization would.
Over time people would forget the horrors and history repeats.
Preparedness paradox is what comes close to it.
This. The last generations surviving WW2 is about to die and we're closer than ever to repeat it. I have no more faith in humanity anymore it's completely gone since covid. The fact that millions can just be witnesses to an insane person obsessed with power and greed and do nothing to stop it pushed that final nail in the coffin for me. I wonder if this is how people felt during the rise of nazi Germany.
Civilization would collapse, but the descendants of the survivors would rebuild. Some of them, anyway. Which is why we should construct Knowledge Arks with our collective knowledge, as well as history and arts so they can learn from our mistakes. One hopes.
But when the war before causes such a degree of disparity in terms of food produce and human resources they would build bigger nuclear arms much more faster. They have more incentive than us to protect what's left. They would most likely have even hesitation to launch the weapons than us because the world already has had so many hits that it wouldn't matter for a country like Argentina to bomb what's left of humankind and start the world over from their country.
@@freyathewanderer6359 "History becomes legend and legend becomes myth"
@@igorlopes7589 "And for two and a half thousand years, the winter passed out of all knowledge."
kurzgesagt drops this video:
price of property in South Africa and Australia explodes
Nah, austrailia will get fucked by china
Whatever you say
Argentina
already is in australia
Property prices have been increasing these last 10 years. We are in deep trouble in South Africa if the northern hemisphere people screw all of humanity with their obsession with war and total calamity 🙈
POV
You survived a nuclear blast: 😀
You survived a nuclear blast: 😰
ruSSia moment
so dumb and not at all funny.. .you sure nailed it Princess
We can split atoms but can’t understand each other. Absolutely terrifying.
Splitting atoms is much easier than getting them together, just like it is with humans
Can't understand each other? That's wrong by a prefix.
You're mistaking humanity's lack of desire to understand each other for inability to do so. We can all understand each other, but barriers like religion, language, culture and customs disallow nationalists from even considering it.
Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat of our time, but nationalism is how we get to using them. Nationalism made Russia into the USSR, it's what makes China so dangerous, and it's what is currently fueling the wars between Russia/Ukraine, and India/Pakistan (also religion is a big part of that one)
It's poisonous ideology, and exactly the kind of thing Republicans want you to adopt.
those arent the same people.
@@Crowald thanks for the input, but you’ve unintentionally backed my comment. you pointing out a political party as if they’re wrong and your ideology is righteous proves my comment. it’s very frightening indeed
2:23
Southern Hemisphere: Hey, Northern Hemisphere, you good?
Northern Hemisphere: 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Run to Jesus!!!
If you have defected from God then read these Scriptures: (Lost Sheep, Luke 15:1-7 - Lost Coin, 15:8-10 - Lost Son, 15:11-32 - Rich Man and Lazarus, 16:19-31) Jesus is calling you back home, read His word, believe and repent. Saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone!.
The world is racing toward "AMAGEDDON" !!! And people need to get right with the Lord!
If you have not read the books of (Daniel chapters 7-12), (Ezekiel chapters 37-39) (Matthew chapters 24:1-51 + 25:1-30), (1 Thessalonians chapters 1-5), (2 Thessalonians chapters1-3) and (Revelation chapters 6-19), now would be a good time. They will explain a lot about what is going on right now!
These books will cover the "Wars" about to come, the Rapture, World judgement, hence the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation! These books will also be the most ominous and scary for the unbelievers and the most exciting and uplifting for those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!...
It is my hope and prayer that people would repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before all these things take place, because it is going to be very, very scary if you do not and you decide to wait and see what happens.
Kurzgesagt has just created a worldwide boost to people looking up survivalist articles and prepping resources for the worst case scenario
how you prepare for >10 years of starvation?
@@games4us132 Firstly, move to Australia. Second, watch the world burn.
TBH. I hope my family and I just go in the blast. I wouldn't wish subsistence living in a post nuclear war world on anyone. This video also didn't cover nuclear fallout.
One thing I'll note for anyone who goes down the Prepper rabbit hole: A LOT of it, and I mean a LOT, is rooted in paranoid conspiracy theories, and is focused on preparing not so much for real-world-disaster scenarios but for disaster-movie scenarios. In particular, "prepper" materials tend to focus WAY too much time on how to defend yourself from hypothetical Mad Max esque roving gangs of raiders, as well as on hunting (which is only sustainable for a year tops in all but the most remote areas; if everyone hunts to survive, the wildlife population quickly collapses. Agriculture is an inescapable necessity for long-term survival), while spending much less time on the more mundane but infinitely more likely to be useful matters like treating disease or injuries without access to medical facilities, growing food without access to machinery or fertilizers, or working to rebuild communities.
As a general rule--if the author of a book/article on survivalism has strong ties to any political movement, stay away.
@@MideanStonewith the way they've been recently, you literally would
Kurzgesagt is the type of channel that releases videos that destroy your faith in humanity right after restoring it.
How the hell you restore faith in humanity?
It's been mostly the former recently
who the fuck is kurzergart
They misspelled Kurzgabrot.
@@boiyofinallyfound kid get outta here
For 30 years, I thought we wouldn't need this type of video anymore.
As long as Russia, USA and North Korea exist we will need to think about this
And then Putin and Xi got old. And decided they might as well try world domination before they die.
@@lpnp9477 You forgot India, Pakistan and Israel's Samson option
UA-cam doesn't exits for 30
@@pingüinosagazvideos existed before UA-cam
Aussie Aussie Oy Oy Oy! Australia's prices are a problem but better to survive a war
As much as i love Kurzgesagt, Every single video is a variation of: nuclear war, space is deadly, immune system and killer virus.
I would love for them to tackle more topics.
You forgot about ants.
Given that they're aligned with Open Phil (and as a result, probably the concepts of Effective Altruism) - they'll probably focus on videos about prioritised global existential risks, and/or future-of-humanity-related topics. At least for a good while.
Which I do appreciate - but I agree, it would be really cool to see some other topics (including the occasional quirky/lighthearted topic - I laughed out loud at the 'what if the world turned into gold' video', and one of my all-time faves is the 'beauty' video).
its what gets views, they gotta get that bread even when we want other content
Honestly I could do with more ant videos
The Kremlin disagrees.
Insane how it’s just a bunch of old guys who hold all the power to end the entire planet
They're far to engrossed in resurrecting the cold war and goading eachother into lighting the fuse.
Not really. There’s plenty of youngins that can end the world that have access to nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Would you prefer 16 year olds to?
@@killcat1971 16 year olds play wargames with lead miniatures or on their gaming consoles/PCs and have more sense and know that they're only playing a game and not actually threating to destroy human civilisation and decimate the human race.
@@cosmicwartoad2587 16 year olds also block roads and make stupid choices without thinking about the consequences, there's a reason we limit their responsibilities.
"We have no other event to even compare the death and destruction to."
Bro why does this video have such brutal lines???
Because it’s a brutal topic. Most people don’t realise this is as bad as it gets, by a big margin.
Why shouldn't it be brutal? Tell it to people straight
@Lozzie74 its genuinely wild that we live in an era where we could utterly destroy civilization as we know it with the drop of a hat. or bomb, rather.
And I feel like most people don't realize how close we are to this becoming reality at any moment@@Lozzie74
@@Lozzie74 And I feel like most people don't know how easily this could become a reality at any moment right now.
Aliens looking down:
"We didnt invade yet? Why is everything on fire?".
"If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks, you don't anymore."
Oh... Well, you're not wrong...
Brutal truth
Mao grindset
What's the timestamp for this?
@@constantinethecataphract5949 Damn
5:10
Why did I start my day with this?
My exact thoughts like what am I doing
Cause it is telling you about your next day.
I just finished my day with this...
It's pretty wild to think that all of human civilization could vanish in just a few minutes…
civilisation yes
species survives till end of Earth.
@@jarskil8862how would the species survive if there are no humans aka Homo sapiens…
Would probably baffle future historians way more than bronze age collapse.
@@VoxyFr Human civilization and the Human species are two separate things. The human species would definitely not disappear in "a few minutes" after a nuclear war.
@@GafferPerkelenot really wouldn't it be pretty evident we nuked ourselves?