Tango01  | 26 Apr 2023 8:58 p.m. PST |
"The lucky country can count on one more piece of good fortune, with researchers finding Australia – followed by neighbour New Zealand – best placed to survive a nuclear winter and help reboot a collapsed human civilisation. The study published in the journal Risk Analysis describes Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu as the island countries most capable of producing enough food for their populations after an "abrupt sunlight‐reducing catastrophe" such as a nuclear war, super volcano or asteroid strike…"
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 26 Apr 2023 10:07 p.m. PST |
Didn't they make a book and a movie about that back in the 1950s? |
| Extrabio1947 | 27 Apr 2023 3:50 a.m. PST |
They did. It was called "On The Beach." But it wasn't a survival scenario; just a delay of the inevitable. |
| Frederick | 27 Apr 2023 7:44 a.m. PST |
Having worked in New Zealand I have to agree with the caveat – while a great place, heavily dependent on imports for a lot of things, especially things that make civilization tick |
| Stryderg | 27 Apr 2023 11:16 a.m. PST |
Surviving is one thing, figuring out how to stay that way long term is something else entirely. |
 Condotta | 27 Apr 2023 12:39 p.m. PST |
The plan is for Australia and NZ to export the prison population to other parts of the globe to repopulate the earth. Just think, the whole world with an Oz and Kiwi accent. Now, that will be truly odd. 🫣🙀😄 |
 etotheipi  | 27 Apr 2023 1:20 p.m. PST |
So, the real criterion is …
tucked away from the likely sites of northern hemisphere nuclear fallout … not being hit in the actual nuclear apocalypse? I thought Australia was the place least likely for humans to survive at all… |
| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2023 3:36 p.m. PST |
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| Striker | 27 Apr 2023 5:28 p.m. PST |
Didn't the documentary Road Warrior show how to survive in the Land Down Under? Assless chaps mandatory. |
| Bunkermeister | 27 Apr 2023 7:26 p.m. PST |
Iceland is an active volcanic island, they are likely to be the source of the super volcano. Mike Bunkermeister Creek |
| Tango01 | 28 Apr 2023 3:22 p.m. PST |
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struggles to complete his SISI truck force.
