There's only enough footroun e around the earth for 60 days. After that, mass starvation was going to occur. Oga don't realize how vulnerable the earth is. You show you have a global catastrophe, from an astroid impact, from a large volcanic eruption, from a nuclear war, a agriculture is going to shut off. There's about enough food in the city for a week. That's it. And there's not much you can do about it. But prini, i hate to be a self serving, self centered person, but is there a place on earth where your models say that one might be?
Are advanced civilizations doomed to destroy themselves? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the Cold War, The Drake Equation, and nuclear winter hypothesis with producer of Cosmos and Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and atmospheric scientist Brian Toon.
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