Starvaion Problem
One difficulty is that nuclear winter is likely (per physicists) even in a limited India-Pakistan exchange. Such an exchange was in preparation (without the knowledge of chief executives in either country) during yet another Kashmir crisis in the late 90s. It took all of Clinton's bluster to get it shut down.
That exchange, the most likely to occur, would not mean the end of humanity. It would however result in starvation to the point of "body piles" and consequent secondary effects -- pandemics.
The evolutionary bottle-neck of several tens of thousands of years ago show we can survive as a species and reproduce from a base level of 10,000 fertile, so we would get through it. And it's hard to look at Donald Trump, the Kardashian hegemony, Miley Virus, or other examples of how uselessly anti-human modern social converse is, and not wonder if a punch restart (not the one Hillary mis-spelled for Putin a few years ago) would not be perhaps a necessary evolutionary side-step putting us on track for a higher level civilization (on the energy to achievement ratio outlined by the Pentagon report) in another five or seven hundred years.
Just saying .....
One difficulty is that nuclear winter is likely (per physicists) even in a limited India-Pakistan exchange. Such an exchange was in preparation (without the knowledge of chief executives in either country) during yet another Kashmir crisis in the late 90s. It took all of Clinton's bluster to get it shut down.
That exchange, the most likely to occur, would not mean the end of humanity. It would however result in starvation to the point of "body piles" and consequent secondary effects -- pandemics.
The evolutionary bottle-neck of several tens of thousands of years ago show we can survive as a species and reproduce from a base level of 10,000 fertile, so we would get through it. And it's hard to look at Donald Trump, the Kardashian hegemony, Miley Virus, or other examples of how uselessly anti-human modern social converse is, and not wonder if a punch restart (not the one Hillary mis-spelled for Putin a few years ago) would not be perhaps a necessary evolutionary side-step putting us on track for a higher level civilization (on the energy to achievement ratio outlined by the Pentagon report) in another five or seven hundred years.
Just saying .....