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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by ceilingcorner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:10PM (#27838475)
Many scholars have posited that a global thermonuclear war with Cold War-era stockpiles, or even with the current smaller stockpiles, may lead to human extinction. This position was bolstered when nuclear winter was first conceptualized and modelled in 1983. However, models from the past decade consider total extinction very unlikely, and suggest parts of the world would remain habitable.[25] Technically the risk may not be zero, as the climatic effects of nuclear war are uncertain and could theoretically be larger than current models suggest, just as they could theoretically be smaller than current models suggest. There could also be indirect risks, such as a societal collapse following nuclear war that can make humanity much more vulnerable to other existential threats

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by michaelmrose on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:15PM (#27838537)
We might live but we wouldn't live well and our long term prospects would be dim.
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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by ceilingcorner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:23PM (#27838611)
The claim was “extinction event.”
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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by msbarnett on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:34PM (#27838725)
The phrase I used was actually “extinction scenario” rather than a singular event, and “most people die immediately, an unlucky few eke out lives of unspeakable horror and pestilence for a handful of generations before the species collapses entirely” was basically what I had in mind.

Really though I can’t imagine what you think this pedantic obsession with whether or not everyone gets blown up immediately is adding to the conversation.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by ceilingcorner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @11:00PM (#27840977)
It’s not pedantic, it’s referencing actual studies on the topic. No expert thinks that humans would go extinct.
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