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Originally Posted by GrampianStars
What a load 
the US has the capability to wipe out 95% of the human population alone fallout from that will kill the rest of us with cancers etc over a relatively short time scale.
As for the bio-diversety of plants & animals they're being wiped out bloody fast estimates are around 95% GONE within 20 - 30 years
and that's without nuclear fallout intervention
back to your mythical studies
The only way in the short term is science develop a human "Calici" type virus to switch off the majority of us humans  |
Rubbish. Show me the scientific studies that have made that prediction. You clearly have no concept of the number of species on earth and probably have the rather common obsession that large mammals are the most important species. Certain 'environmental' groups have claimed we are wiping out species at a faster rate than the great extinctions, but that is a fatuous claim as we can't judge the great extinctions on this time scale - we're looking at fossil rocks where long periods of time are compressed into a few mm! My point was that even given those extinctions our world developed to the level of biodiversity it had before we started degrading it and it can do it again. Here is my prediction and I'll put any money you like on it, in 30 years 95% of the currently extant species will NOT be extinct.
As for nuclear war, I'd like to see how you make those calculations. Certainly, it could potentially wipe out the majority of the population of the developed world (a minority of mankind) and result in significant disease in a large part of the rest, but it would only wipe out humanity completely if everyone laid down and gave up on life. We aren't the dinosaurs, we got where we are today using our brains (some of the time...). Humans are all over the world and not all parts would be equally affected. How many people died as a result of Chernobyl? A lot less than was expected. It is quite possible we aren't as susceptible to radiation as we thought. In case you think I am a nuclear apologist, I say this as a someone with a long history as an anti-nuclear campaigner. I've been on CND marches to US bases, a UK nuclear warfare establishment, not to mention marches in capital cities.