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A study found that a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia would kill more than 5 billion people – just from starvation (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But yeah I mean there probably would be some survivors.

This is literally the whole point I'm making. I really don't get the downvotes, it seems perfectly straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, especially in the southern hemisphere, a few centuries later we might have slightly different genetics through rapid evolution via population collapse but we'd probably be back developing with a bit more accurate folk knowledge and probably actually a lot of remembered tech.

It'd be terrible to the people it happened to but barely a blip in the life history of the planet from the first evolution to the last lifeforms leaving or dying.