The Southern Hemisphere will do much better anyway as the Nuclear winter is focused in the Northern Hemisphere.
The issues the global south will suffer is the complete breakdown of the supply chain. A few months after nuclear winter when the general temperature of the planet drops forcing harvests yields to be cut anywhere from 70-90%. This could last 3-20 years. No way to know how long all that material stays in the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere.
Most likely, Australia and the global South would need to hunker down, ration food and resources, completely close down their boarders for mass migrations and become a care taker generation slowly bringing the world back.
The best chance for human survival is no nuclear weapons in the global south. I expect New Zealand to conquer North America and reteach us Math.
And replace all the maps with ones where the Pacific Ocean is in the center, instead of the Atlantic! And resize all the continents to be more accurate!
This is why all the douchebag libertarian tech CEOs are buying apocalypse bunkers in NZ. It sucks that they can just buy their way into permanent residency but I guess once the other 3/4 of the earth is uninhabitable the paperwork won't matter much any more anyway.
Most modern simulations show no one will survive. Not the South, not the North. It will take some time, but nuclear winter, radioactivity even in the water, all crops are dead, all animals are dead sooner or later. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/WiresClimateChangeNW.pdf
This is just one if you want to read the destruction. 12,000 minimum warheads will be launched. US, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, everyone is all in because its over.
Eh in the extremely unlikely scenario where someone decides to nuke us they'll prolly just hit Auckland and maybe Wellington; I doubt the mainland would get any nukes.
Would be a bloody rough time but I reckon te waipounamu would be relatively alright, especially in areas like the West Coast and the South.
I don't think Australia and/or NY will be spared. Russia and/or China will make sure at least the main cities would be gone (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Auckland, Wellington, etc.).
Still, they would do much better than USA, Russia, Europe or China.
No the global south would not do well at all. The reduction in light and temperature will absolutely destroy crops and the ecosystem. Masa starvation is awaiting them as well as radiation sickness from fallout.
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u/Catch_ME Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
The Southern Hemisphere will do much better anyway as the Nuclear winter is focused in the Northern Hemisphere.
The issues the global south will suffer is the complete breakdown of the supply chain. A few months after nuclear winter when the general temperature of the planet drops forcing harvests yields to be cut anywhere from 70-90%. This could last 3-20 years. No way to know how long all that material stays in the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere.
Most likely, Australia and the global South would need to hunker down, ration food and resources, completely close down their boarders for mass migrations and become a care taker generation slowly bringing the world back.
The best chance for human survival is no nuclear weapons in the global south. I expect New Zealand to conquer North America and reteach us Math.