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Originally Posted by Renato1
The Yellowstone Park super volcano could be a planet-killer, or it could just be a USA/ Canada/Mexico killer.
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My money is on that one.
We would have zero power to stop it, no matter how much notice we got.
As to the doomsday preppers, sadly, I think their attitude may well be correct. (Happy to be wrong about this.) Our current supply system gives most big cities about a months worth of food.
A Yellowstone style event would ruin most rural food production.
I don't really want to imagine what would happen to society in an event like this.
There are many historical examples of what barbarity people sometimes reduce to when the food runs out. Check out the Batavia story from WA.
Of interest, the first ever European building in what would become Australia, was a makeshift fort that a few soldiers built to protect themselves from other Batavia members who were intent on killing everyone else so that their supplies would last longer.