Four days ago, we postulated that economic collapse could be the first horse across the apocalypse finish line. However, geopolitical tensions, heightened by intersecting economic, climate, and energy crises, compound the risk of nuclear annihilation.
“It doesn’t matter who is bombing whom. It can be India and Pakistan or NATO and Russia. Once the smoke is released into the upper atmosphere, it spreads globally and affects everyone… The sudden drop in light and ocean temperatures, especially from the Arctic to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, would kill the marine algae, which is the foundation of the marine food web, essentially creating a famine in the ocean,” said Louisiana State University researcher Cheryl Harrison.
Original research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/2021AV000610