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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by oblio on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:52PM (#27838883)
We're incredibly resilient. We can eat anything and we have technology that can be used in some of the worst environments on the planet and that allow us to get shelter and food.

We'd be 10 thousand not 10 billion and life would suck but we would survive. And the fallout would clear within a few decades or centuries.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by sudosysgen on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:44PM (#27840265)
No, we wouldn't. The fallout could feasibly kill everyone without WMD protection within a few years.

10 000 people is not nearly enough for a modern division of labour - we'd be reverted back to prehistoric technology levels within a generation, with a bonus of fallout and absolute climate dysfunction. Given a sufficiently destructive nuclear exchange literally every single human could die.

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