What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?
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A nuclear bomb is the most devastating explosion ever created.
One bomb can end tens of thousands of lives immediately and
hundreds of thousands through the radioactive aftermath. However,
the worst part comes afterward: a nuclear winter that might kill billions,
potentially leading to the complete collapse of our civilization.
In a nuclear winter, there are no winners - only starving losers.
How exactly does it work and what would it look like?
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"If you have more people than calories available, then in a few weeks you don't anymore." So simple, so brutal.
because everybody took up sourdough baking, right?
If we gave up animal agriculture, we'd need a lot less space and resources for the same amount of calories... So that would definitely help in this scenario
@@physicsorca9491yea, but there would still me that one Guy Likes 'I ain't eatin those vegetables'.
not my problem@@keyvanestermann
@@No.Good.NicknameThen he goes hungry until he eats vegetables. If he wants to starve himself to death, that’s his problem.
You know is serious when theres no intro nor any single "birb" until the very end.
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Nuclear weapons feel like something we discovered way too early
honestly
Ever since the invention of guns, we've been on a one way march towards self destruction.
Problem is we keep getting more Putins that think they're Napoleon in the 18th century and try to conquer the World!
Damn you Heisenberg/Oppenheimer/Teller!
@@jokerchrist2545 stop it. it wasn't the scientists that decided to weaponize fission, it was governments that did that. people WITHOUT a background in science. stop villainizing science.
"On the Beach" is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
I saw the 2000 movie version, but it was like a comedy comparing to "The Road", for example.
In my top ten movies. Saw it as a kid. Made a huge impression.
It's also horrendously inaccurate
@@abyscidis The novel was published in 1957, no need to critique it with 2024 standards of authenticity. Besides it was mostly a story about people's reaction to their impending deaths.
The relative social cohesion even towards the end. Reflects a completely different society. You'd expect barbarism. Looting. Complete destruction. It was all very.....orderly. A product of a more homogeneous, high trust culture? Wishful thinking?
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” ― Carl Sagan
That's a great quote
More like 4000 matches. Last I checked, USA and Russia have around 4000 nukes each.
@@PapyrusEngineer does it really matter how many fuckin matches they have?! They drop one we all die
@@hellishcyberdemon7112I think it’s like 11000 tho
Sadly Carl didn't know what happens if you actually drop a match into petrol
"Their nuclear-winter will be milder." This is pretty much the most positive sentence in the video.
I should move to Argentina...
@@rey_nemaattori Austrian painter knew where he is moving
@@YagoKatzen I had similar thoughts when I saw the title and thumbnail
Then follow by "Their might got invaded by other starving nations" 💀
Southern nations will ally to protect from the starving invaders. No one wants illegal immigrants right? (Unless they're you, then it's understandable and OK yes?)
Imagine surviving a nuclear apocalypse and when you finally go outside to get food you get killed by deathclaws
To answer the last question in the video: absolutely. People would build nucleair weapons again. It is a common misconception that people learn form the past. They don't.
It would be unlikely we would reach that stage of sophistication again that would enable us to make nuclear weapons . Einstein's famous quote about nuclear war when he said about it, he didn't know what weapos would be used in WW3 but he did know the ones that would be used in WW4 and they would be sticks and stones.
@@garyturner5739 we will 100% be able to return, as long as the knowledge to restart civilization remains we went from stone age hunter gatherers to today in 10000 years, it will be far easier to go from post apocalyptic survivors, surrounded by steel, machines, and the know-how to make them to the states of today a single furnace capable of melting steel surviving nuclear war will already jump humanity 4000 years forward if we compare it to how long it took for bronze tools to be made a single literate human will do the exact same thing, and even more if they can access knowledgeable books
In a twisted way, you could almost make the argument that nukes have prevented a lot of deaths in hypothetical wars deterred by MAD…unfortunately who knows if we are going to have to pay that piper. It’s insane that we just set up explosives in our own home and sleep soundly like nothing happened.
@@garyturner5739all the smart people such as scientist and engineers for example would have first class security clearance to get in the safest bunkers lol
Learn from what?that 3rd world countries like ruSSia will not blow everything up again?normal countries needs it to protect itself
Crazy that that about 200 people are pretty much responsible for it if it happens. They wouldn’t be the one’s starving or burning either
Would say more like 20.. (Presidents + Defense Ministers and Highest ranking generals)
This is so true and scary, we need to find a way to change this if it comes to war
I think they're pretty much doomed too.
Yeah, no. It will not be 200 people or 20 people fault. What are you even talking about? What about the hundrends of millions in the west voting idiots who cooperated with Putin's ways? What about the billions in the east directly or indirectly aiding Putin? Yeah, no, noone escapes fault. Not you, not you parents, not you relatives and not your friends and compatriots. It will be a collective fault.
and yet people are still supporting such ... people instead of forcing them out of office
The scariest thing is not what would happen, it's the fact that there are people that have the authority to give orders like that
Having these titanic arsenals requires maintenance and supply logistics, which is an industry of big, big money in the hands of very few people. All the STS and general DoD folk are essentially minimum wage slave labor, while fantastically well paid contractors slowly eat more and more funding. The use of Nuclear Weapons has never been the point. We always fear it, but that fear is itself part of the money making equation and the perfect culpability shield. They never intend to use them, but instead continue increasing stockpiles, and that is increasing the absurd wealth these systems funnels from public to private hands. That's the real war currently ongoing, and we've been losing it for 60 years.
@@BrandanLeeYeah but people can still use them. I wish nobody ever actually meant to, but people do, and we've come close Also DoD being minimum wage slave labor is brutally true 💀
Also scarier, is that people have thought about this, and have been researching it. Now who do you think is paying the scientists to research this? Besides a philanthropist organization trying to convince everyone that we can't let this happen? Perhaps some rich powerful people that are PLANNING for it.
People = Biden or Trump; Putin. Scary!
Not only that but the people manufacturing and stock piling these weapons are fully aware of what would happen if they ever used them and yet they continue to make more and are increasingly making more threats involving them. Like I don't care who you are or what country you come from but it's in none of our interests to go to nuclear war it's literally just the politicians being small minded. Like I can understand going to conventional war because I'm joining the marines but nuclear war makes no sense to me. It's the equivalent to a kid taking his ball home just before losing a game of football it's honestly embarrassing
"An odd game, the only winning move is not to play" If you know the movie you know
Which movie
War games is the movie
WAR GAMES
Classic, one of my favorites!
good movie
This new fallout trailer is FIRE 🔥
Bro 💀
ruSSia moment
“How humanity will” and not “How humanity would” is terrifying
They changed the OG title quite fast.
too terrifying they changed it lol
"how humanity will" implies humanity survives "how humanity would" implies humanity does not survive bc it's a would be scenario edit: someone below corrected my comment
Have you met us?
@@MrGnorts No, "how humanity _wouldn't"_ or "how humanity won't" imply lack of survival. "Will" vs "would" is the difference between implying the nuclear winter is going to happen, vs it hypothetically may happen, but may not.
"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself." That's Raw
That's True
Marco Inaros liked this
I misread this in an emo way... "That's Rawr"
Sad but true
Cries in Chrisjen Avasarala @@VinceValentine
The world: **Nuclear apocalypse** Me: _"🎶I got spurs, that jingle jangle jingle!🎶"_
"🎶as I go ridin merrily along~🎶"
And they sing oh ain't ya glad youre single
Australia, New Zealand & Argentina's real estate boom after this video 📈😭
Australia or New Zealand? Real estate? God I wish that were true
Housing crisis about to go even harder
Oh shoot, my rent will go up?
My only concern as an Australian regarding nuclear war is if China decided to fire one this way. Other than that we’d struggle with fuel.
Socialism in Argentina is worse than nuclear war tbh
As Einstein once said, "Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap"
Damn
because mice aren't capable
@@davideghirelli5856Lets use our imagination to imagine a mouse has the ability to build a mousetrap.
@@fish8415 They actually have it since many species of rodents create their dens near rivers since the terrain is easier and often provide more food. They derebely decide to risk to die in case of a flood that live a little harder life somewhere else. So yes, mice can create mousetrap and they actually do it
@@fish8415 if the mice are competing for resources they will design mousetraps, its common sense. And since resources are limited at some point they will compete for the scraps whether they like it or not
Well that cheered me up
Imagine destroying a world of hundreds of billions of years old just because your feelings were hurt.
Yea but they started it , 😂
I am still convinced mutual destruction wont happen. I think that because every time is should have happened during the cold war, it didnt. Because the man that was ordered to press the button just didnt. Yes, we were that close
The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, not hundreds of billions. Just clarifying as your point still stands
Where I press the button?
@@luanocesar8301 in putlers bunker
8:42 Argentina: I wish I was the most developed nation on Earth Genie: As you wish
As an argentinian, I would despair that THAT was the reason we reached the top. There is no future worth that much death.
Milei is already making it the most developed nation on Earth, no need for that.
Good joke 😆@@OhioButtShakerGyattMachine9500
We still wouldn't have the highest GDP
@@empanada869 Leftie detected, opinion invalidated.
The worst part is convincing your insurance company that your radiation burns are not a pre-existing condition, and they should allow you to get treatment out-of-network, because your regular hospital was vaporized.
You must be an American. I live in Europe where we don't need to explain pre-existing conditions. Our hospitals will be just as vaporised though.
if anything europeans would be worse off seeing as how small Europe is and it would probs be a very big target if this hypothetical war was with Russia.. @@gohumberto
That's bad shit crazy dude
Imagine having to come up with the deductible or copay? "I'm sorry, I cant pay you right now, my savings have all been... liquidated."
The fact that you still think your insurance company exist is amusing.
Wonderful. I can't wait.
great video !
thanks for giving me some unbelievably unbearable dread right before i go to sleep! same time next week?
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Lmao you think you’re gonna make it to next week
LOL
Distract yourself by remembering your tongue is too big for your mouth.
"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself" That is exactly what it's like. Gahdamn were dumb.
You think we're dumb now? Baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Or if it's a fusion bomb, it's like dropping an incredibly small star
Its not that we are collectively dumb, but its how we view eachother and our believes. We kill eachother because we simply dont like eachother. Thats the dumb part.
@@vaylonkenadellHumans have always been extremely and embarrassingly dumb.
Hasn't even happened yet and your grammer is terrible + you are being dramatic. Who's the dumb one lil bro
This felt much more optimistic than it would actually be.
Hello @kurzgesagt. Thank you for this amazing video. I have one equally important doubt. What about radiation ? It's also just too much deadly. Nuclear winter might be gone after a decade or so but what about radiation? How much long will it take for humans to be able to live in those radiation affected areas ? If possible, can you make another video ?
Strontium 90 has a half life of 60yrs,Cessium 137 has a half life of 30yrs,so everything above ground,including water would radioactive for a long time.
Paradoxically, the radiation left after an air-burst detonation of a nuclear weapon (which is likely how the vast majority of them would be used) is actually far lower and shorter time affecting than you'd expect. This is due to the fact that in an air-burst, the radioactive material is not intermixed with soil (like it would be if detonated on the ground), and so instead is spread (lessened in intensity) more easily. Also, the most radioactive decay products are indeed _so_ radioactive that they decay away in a matter of days and weeks. TL;DR: Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be rebuilt and resettled not terribly long after being bombed. It's not the radiation that makes the biggest problem after a nuclear exchange.
@@mnxs thats a good point with regard to residual radiation, with regard to initial radiation its also worth noting that the bombs dropped on Japan were atomic bombs not thermonuclear bombs, and those atomic bombs were very inefficient to the point that the lethal radius of initial radiation was literally larger than the blast radius, today the US has retired all atomic bombs so initial radiation isnt really an issue anymore since the blast radius will kill you anyway
The fact that Kurzgesagt didn't put an explanation for how unlikely this is at the end scared me.
Yeah I think it’s a bit irresponsible really. None of this is actually going to happen. It’s simply not in the interest to make it happen for any armed state, it will never bring a ‘win’ for a warring side. It’s barely even worth considering.
It only takes a few people pressing a button ... We all thought that a virus can't escape a lab. But it did.
yeah but sometimes people just dont give a sh... In the end we're just humans - Crazy and pathetic sometimes@@aquiatic
@@aquiatic Any sane, rational leader would never do it. But unfortunately we have multiple nuclear armed or close to armed countries led by people who are not sane and rational. I couldn't begin to guess the actual chance of this happening, but it is definitely non-zero, and we should try to do something about it.
We are being conditioned to accept this catastrophe during our life time. If you have a closer look at this channel's contents, you can see a trend of "end of day" scenarios.
the upside of living in London: chances of surviving more than 1 second after that first bright light in the sky is close to zero, rather than starving to death
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yeah, if they ever do end up falling i would rather be under one than live in the hellscape that follows.
Plus a bright light in the sky would probably be a welcome sight for the split second we see it. Just an excited "Is this that 'sun' thing I've heard people tell of?" And then boom
@@davidjennings2179 Apparently my explanation was so bad I think I'm super smart, so I edited my comment.
I live in Perth, Western Australia 😢
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I do not think they can ramp up prices as people would just start looting as there would be no government to enforce the laws
Yep, it will be a matter of who has the limited supplies and who has the brute force to take it.
"The global death toll could rise to about 5 billion" Kurzgesagt: "Extremely unpleasant"
Well it wouldn't be pleasant
"Minor Inconvenience"
Lol
He's british, it's understandable.
I went to the atomic bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima last year and got a small glimpse at how awful a single nuclear weapon could be. If a nuclear war did happen I pray i would be one of the lucky people to instantly be turned to dust. Some of the most horrific things i read and saw were from the aftermath of the explosion. Nuclear weapons are truly terrible.
Fun fact: our modern nukes are in some cases more than 200 times deadlier than the nuke dropped on hiroshima
@@superzockertvyt9630nah definitely not a "fun" fact 💀
I've been to the a-bomb museum too. it was profoundly humbling and in many ways deeply disturbing. We even met a very elderly survivor of the blast and saw some of the scars she still carried. Nukes are extremely cruel and indiscriminate weapons; the irony is that they are also almost the pinnacle of human achievement, intelligence and perseverance. We had nukes and airplanes that could carry them thousands of miles before both of the Wright brothers had died. We have so much ability and potential, just not the ability (yet) to resist our hubris.
And I wonder, what it would take to stop army folk placing bets over which testicle would explode first when bound with wet bamboo; or folk that would face slavery and torture that only the Nazis could admire. Suddenly, Boom!
The two bombs dropped in Japan are two relatively small bombs. By today's standard, they can be qualified as tactical weapons if not having the massive dead weights.
Awesome animations
Great timing
putler think so too
Conclusion: Don't drop nuclear bombs
And every generation needs to learn this. We must never forget.
Conclusion: Klaus Fuchs is an asshole
Yeah, tell Iran, but find an argument that doesn’t involve “people will die” bc in their ideology wanting to live is heretical and perverse.
Why was the spread of radioactive particles in the atmosphere not mentioned? A very serious problem.
Tell that to Israel and his samson option lol
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Its crazy how a simple missunderstanding could end us all
Nobody is going to launch nukes over a misunderstanding
@@Balgore8 It almost happened. Read about Stanislav Petrov
@@kuturak Man you were in one of the deepest moments of the cold war. He probably saved most of us and our world but it would have not been only a misunderstanding. There was a whole world tense situation at the base of it.
@@Penta_Penguin_237 Also because the USSR thought the Able Archer exercises was to mask the buildup for an invasion.
@@kuturak The US had similar incidents in ' 79 and '80. With the latter one showing a more credible launch, and only really getting a more thorough check because of the similar incident in '79
wow, the way they animated the explosion was so cool!!!
WOW .. THIS SOUNDS EXCITING .. PUT ME DOWN FOR A FRONT ROW SEAT !
"A gigantic mushroom cloud rises over the destruction like a demon throning over its perverse work." That simile legit sent a chill up my spine.
I was really hoping they would animate a skull or demon in the mushroom cloud when they said that
This is why we need to stop authoritarian regimes
it seems like everytime we create a new stronger weapon it was all to prevent take overs from happing so how long can the nuclear bomb last before they are dated by war standards and have something else to worry about.
@@MikkelDevs First we need to stop the people in our own countries who want to sell out to those authoritarian regimes. That's priority one, but as soon as that's dealt with we focus on the regimes directly.
@@killman369547 Yes correct
As the Kelvedon Hatch bunker says, “If you survive, after a few days you’ll start to feel a little bit ill, and after a few weeks, you’d be a little bit dead.”
You do know hydrogen bombs don’t have the radiation effect as a normal nuclear bomb. The explosion is much more destructive, but it doesn’t have the radiation.
@@MLM68 I do, yes, but it’s a good line.
Which video is this from please?
tell that to the Russians
@@MLM68 What if you survived a Neutron bomb?
“You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Damn you all to hell!” - Charlton Heston, “Planet of the Apes” (1968) 😱
The fact that this is possible on this days is realy scary.
Bro I already had my existential crisis today, I don't need a second one
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Nuclear war explodes. The guy who lives in Argentina: "Great!" Sees a US aircraft carrier: "oh, crap"
Not again man 😭😭😭
Civil war will be there already. Brazilian immigration and all latin american will be in they border.
1. All carriers would have been destroyed in the initial exchange 2. The logistics required to project power across an ocean are nontrivial even in peacetime. This would be flat out impossible to do in a postwar scenario.
Well, we have a US carrier arriving here in may so... Fuck, here we go again.
@@isodoublet 1. No. Carriers are mostly out at sea. And they would not be the targets. Most would still be around, unless there was a major naval battle prior to the big exchange. That said, your second point is still true, so there's that.
"they have a lot of livestock that would not be as affected as crops", what do you think the livestock eats?
Livestock can also typically eat things humans can’t, for example cows can process grass.
The grass would be contaminated with fallout from the nuclear bombs. The cows would then eat that and afterwards they'd die from radioactive poisoning.
New Zealand has a strategic aim to dramatically decrease their livestock because they produce CO2😢
It's incredible to think we are even faced with this situation ever happening. I believe there is hope, even bad people with bad thoughts can change for the better, it's all to do with how the human brain works and how we can change our thinking. 💭💙
POV You survived a nuclear blast: 😀 You survived a nuclear blast: 😰
ruSSia moment
When the voice of Kurzgesagt says "ok", it's usually a not-ok scenario that follows
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. @@Joshiboiy
@@JoshiboiyGod is terrible at creating sinless people.
@@Joshiboiy Damn boy, you got rekt pretty hard
@Joshiboiy i have a religious question
Its crazy to think that a couple people with power can literaly destroy everything in seconds
all while they sit in their bunkers and watch it happen
curious about the effects of the radiation, if y'all are ever up to making a sequel
After the nukes drop you hear "war, war never changes" and then a several minute long cutscene plays as it loads you into a new map
patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
@@Agent4077we won't go quietly, legion can count on that
At least some of us would then finally find out if you can survive 3rd degree burns and live on for a couple of centuries.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
The rich and government wuldnt Even tell us let alone sound the alarm... That's how cowards the government is
The 3-year volcanic Winter that started in 536 halved Sweden's population. 10 years of Winter with an over-reliance on imported food sounds so much worse.
Probably like how volcanic eruption of Mt. Toba (Nowadays turned into Toba lake in Indonesia) almost wiped out humanity back 74,000 years ago. Yet even back then, humanity was a hunter-gathered society. So with our society today deeply rely on technology, the effect could be much worse.
@@haikalmiftah2529 Or much better , since now we are not so reliant on weather like our past hunter and gatherer selvs
they we're ZERO in terms of tech. don't compare them with today's advancement
@@gscsilvavaladares7065tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
Nuclear winter in todays society is a myth
"If you have more people than calories" brought to mind the apocalyptic war drama Threads. There is a scene in which the few (and slowly dying) authority figures are trying to figure out how to feed everyone, and they are forced to make a decision about food distribution. One suggests the equivalent of 1000 calories a day for those who can work, and 500 a day for those who can't. To put this into perspective, one of the most horrific concentration camps during WWII didn't reduce the calorie intake of their prisoners to a number like 500 until the tail end of the war. I liked how the film doesn't depict this as an intentionally callous decision, but one out of sheer desperation. Another horrific scene from the film is the one that takes place in the hospital. The hospital is overcrowded with people, the people working in the hospital lack things like proper medical supplies, so you see people having their wounds sterilized by salt water and amputations perfomed without anesthesia. The screams you hear in that scene are nightmare-inducing, it almost makes the scene scarier than the one in which the bombs drop. The scariest aspect of that scene is that this very scenario ACTUALLY HAPPENED in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs dropped. I hope humanity will never experience total nuclear war.
One can't work on 1000 calories a day. That's a starvation diet. Some people could stay long term functional on 1500 or so. It will play out far differently. A large fraction of the population will simply starve to death within the first year. The (not so) lucky survivors will have to face years of very poor food quality. It might take ten to twenty years to recover something resembling the current level of food production. It is very hard to imagine that more than 10% of the current human population will survive a full nuclear winter scenario.
@@schmetterling4477 Exactly. That's why the workers were so anguished when they made the decision. No one was prepared for the bombing, and they knew it was a starvation diet. They even listed the pitiful samples of what foods would constitute such a diet. No wonder one worker shouts "BASTARDS!" in despair.
@@user-cl5yb3vj2l You aren't shouting very long on 1000kCal while you are working. For people who are not obese for starters it's over within a couple of months.
@@schmetterling4477 Another factor into that decision in the film is that before the bombs dropped there was already a food supply crisis in the area, so resources were limited. Plus the authority figures who made the decision could only do so much, as they were trapped in a collapsed building and slowly suffocating to death. People also resorted to looting food out of desperation. If you haven't seen the film I recommend it (though it's a hard watch). It's available on KZhead.
@@user-cl5yb3vj2l You couldn't make movies on a 1000kCal diet for very long, either. Cameras are heavy. ;-)
10:14 _Catch 'em all!_ Kurzgesagt❕😜
"It's easy to calculate how many people can be alive on Earth... If you have more people than calories, then in a few weeks you don't anymore". The way how cynical yet unquestionably straightforward these calculations are sends shivers down my spine. It's like you can try and do anything to survive but the truth is - if there is no food, then there is no food. And you can do nothing about it
Yeah, the ability to produce so much food is humanity's foundational superpower. Everything relies on it. Nuclear war takes that away and we instantly fare no better than animals, where food is a daily struggle.
You can try the same principle when your fridge is empty but you're hungry: close the fridge, lower standards, try again. When hungry, the dog will start to look very tasty. Waterfowl and small game will be hunted to extinction. Eventually people will be boiling treebark or eat tulip bulbs, just to get some nutrients. There's little you can do against this, I've got a small food supply of a couple of months ever since the lock downs, but bridging 10+ years is nigh impossible, I'd need a second and probably a 3rd garage to store that much food...let alone keep it edible & concealed as to not get mugged... it'll be truly hell on earth, just a lot colder than hell.
@@rey_nemaattori I get what you're saying but I don't think I could ever eat my dog no matter how hungry I was, they're man's best friend!
@@JordanBeagle if you get hungry enough you'll resort to humans as well, at some point your brain doesn't care about how much you love that dog, at some point your brain just wants food
thats what is happening in gaza as we speak
My grandfather was one of the first US observers sent into Hiroshima. We asked him why he never made a bomb shelter. He said"you arent going to want to survive that, itd be worse than just dying outright"
Sometimes death is a mercy
Talking from someone who has mental health issues on top of a world going to hell, i would do the un alive the minute ww3 is announced.
considering that it was the US itself that made a hell in Japan, so your grandpa had to think about his least painful options. shameless bastards.
@@danny089-theodeoron4 actually in life and death stations you're brain well want to live even if you don't so if a depressed and suicidal person experience ww3 its gonna give him a reason to survive crazy right ? Conscious and subconscious are widely different lol.
@@rami0036disagreed, i'm glad you are not on the same issues i am suffering from, and you probably don't even read the statistics of how many people off themselves even today and all across history. It seems like you believe this topic doesn't exist and that somehow, the brain will fool itself into survival... sad... tragic... people off themselves every day due to much less of a reason than that, and no, i know myself more than you think you know me, i know my limits and my beliefs, so if push comes to shove, i will off it...
We can actually still grow food during a nuclear winter that lasts several years, They can grow wheat and radishes and you know other stuff, inside a room
Hey kurz, I didn't know you were in welt documentary as a translator...
"If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks YOU DON'T ANYMORE" damn it hits hard
Theoretically people can last about three months without any food, but only three days without clean water.
Idiot how you last when there is poisonous gas everywhere, no food and no trust even in own family
There would be roving gangs of cannibals... my assumption is that the bigger, taller people who consume the most calories would get eaten first.
That line was SO DARK! and SO FUNNY!
Bullocks.
Shit. That line "if you have more people than calories, in a few weeks you won't anymore" made me rethink my life for a good minute. That was honestly terrifying asf. Edit: Dayum that's a lot of likes and also, human meat!? The greater question is about the morality then
That thought has terrified me for years.
And inaccurate. It's more like months.
@@johnacetable7201 people can't survive without food for months
Just reminds me of GAZA
we are always about 3 meals away from anarchy
Not a good scenario, but a good video. If you make another video, what are the chances a prepper survive?
The most chilling video on the internet.
5:12 "if you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks you DONT anymore" - that might have been the darkest sentence (and totally accurate of course) I've ever heard from Kurzgesagt.
It's shocking how direct it is speaking of a very dark matter
8:50 So that old internet cartoon was right after all, Australia will be sitting down there saying "WTF Mate?"
AAHHHH MOTHERLAND!
But I am le tired...
"I turn around for an eighth of a second and what do you do but fuckin nuke yourselves"
Well, take a nap. AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!! @@SikGamer70
And the insects shall inherit the earth.
As long as people exist they will always have different opinions, as long as they have different opinions they will always fight and need new ways to win. War...war never changes.
very cool
"Eventually, when they rebuild civilization, will they ever build nuclear weapons again?" My brain shouted DUHHHHHH
yes of course they will, and for good reason
Humans will most likely build them. There are always those who refuse to listen.
Mankind will never stop to find a way to extinct itself. Maybe it's for the better.
What about it would be a good reason?
@@colorpg152Weapons are never made for good reasons. It's made for destruction
Underground Hydroponic Farms Could Be A Solid Solution For The Food. The Water Would Have To Be Carefully Recycled Though.
you'd need sustainable energy sources to provide the artificial lighting...
First kurzgesagt video that actually scares me
We can split atoms but can’t understand each other. Absolutely terrifying.
Splitting atoms is much easier than getting them together, just like it is with humans
Can't understand each other? That's wrong by a prefix.
You're mistaking humanity's lack of desire to understand each other for inability to do so. We can all understand each other, but barriers like religion, language, culture and customs disallow nationalists from even considering it. Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat of our time, but nationalism is how we get to using them. Nationalism made Russia into the USSR, it's what makes China so dangerous, and it's what is currently fueling the wars between Russia/Ukraine, and India/Pakistan (also religion is a big part of that one) It's poisonous ideology, and exactly the kind of thing Republicans want you to adopt.
those arent the same people.
@@Crowald thanks for the input, but you’ve unintentionally backed my comment. you pointing out a political party as if they’re wrong and your ideology is righteous proves my comment. it’s very frightening indeed
If nuclear armeggedon ever happened, the generation that recovered enough to have nuclear weapons would probably not remember how bad nuclear winter was or care what happened maybe 1000 years ago. They would totally rebuild them Edit: 1000 years is hyperbole. There are no good estimates for how long it would take to recover from all-out nuclear war.
Probably like people nowadays looking at black death in Europe & how deadly it was. Or Mongol invasion in Eurasia & it's effect after many centuries.
W wouldn't need that long to rebuild. There are a few key technologies that lead to our technology and population to skyrocket. Remember that southern areas might not get destroyed at all. They will starve and only a small percentage might survive but what will survive almost completely is the technology in these areas and all the books with the knowledge to built them. Getting to the point to build the next nuclear weapons will not take more than a few generations.
@@hackfleischking5162ehh it’s probably take longer ao much off out technology relies on the global supply chain if its gone it’s significantly harder to get all the rare metals needed for making computers plus the labs needed to make them
@@tux_the_astronaut The computers aren't gone, all it'd take is building ships or using what you already have and going to these now very empty, very devastated areas and digging through the garbage. You'd find more than enough functional pieces of machinery to rebuild a country from salvage work, and anything non functional is still often metal for the main important components so you can just reforge them anyway. The gigantic factories that have even larger machines would in fact survive, unless they were directly nuked. It's not a case of "we lose everything forever oh nooooooez" it's more of a case of if a nation has the endurance to survive the starvation period and salvage what they need from the dead zones before anyone else. Those who do, would become the new global superpower very quickly. You also have to keep in mind, the temperature around the equator will also drop to a comfortable level which means farming will boom there for a decade or two, which means these countries will have a boom of food and supplies. Which also means that when things stabilize they will also have a crash after the fact if they don't build an industrial base to maintain it before then
@@tux_the_astronaut but a country that survices relatively untouched would be much better suited to going and just plain invading the well know rare metals and other resources as they would be in a much better position to just claim it
5:10 that's just so depressing. Edit: After 5:10, they're just listing the other indirect destruction nuclear bombs cause.
Power grid would be heavily impacted in areas that rely on renewable power such as solar with reduced sunlight.
kurzgesagt drops this video: price of property in South Africa and Australia explodes
Nah, austrailia will get fucked by china
Whatever you say
Argentina
already is in australia
Property prices have been increasing these last 10 years. We are in deep trouble in South Africa if the northern hemisphere people screw all of humanity with their obsession with war and total calamity 🙈
Well this was uplifting and didn’t raise my existential dread at all
There is a good chance that nuclear war will never happen. And if it does, nothing matters anymore, so all we can do is live our lives as if it would never happen.
yeah its like whatever.... watch calr sagan Cosmos tho, ok ? You will get a glimpse of objective reality and hope!
Idk, the idea that humanity could survive ten years of winter seem plenty uplifting to me. Sure, most of us would be dead. But the species would endure. Essentially, we could survive our best attempts at destroying ourselves- and in a wierd way, that's actually reassuring. When you get right down to it, life on this tiny little mud ball we call Earth could be wiped out at any moment even if we never made a bad decision. A star could go super nova and hit us with X-rays, we could get hit with a decent sized rock, a critical species might die out do to something unforseen causing total ecosystem collapse. We could get exposed to the wrong kind of space dust. We could get hit by a gamma ray burst. There are probably plenty of ways we could get wiped out that we can't even concieve of. Life it fragile- and our planet is less than a speck compared to the rest of the cosmos. We could get snuffed out and no one out their would be the wiser- but at least knowing that it's unlikely that we will actually manage to completely destroy ourselves is nice.
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Brother, hang in there! I grew up in the U.S. during the (1960s-'70s) 1st Cold War, living in Amarillo, TX. (where there was a SAC B-52 Base): then (after Amarillo AFB Closure/ Deactivation) in Memphis, TN. (where the 3rd largest U.S. DoD Defense ( Strategic Supplies Stockpile) Depot was then). Both areas are on the Soviet/ Russian 1st Strike/ Priority Tagets List: I've lived most of my life "Under the Sword of Democles". When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, and the Warsaw Pact dissolved many of us in the West breathed a Giant Sigh of Relief. We believed we had dodged the bullet & the world was going to thrive. Now, in 2024, we've come full-circle, not knowing if today the world was going to end in 6hrs. GOD Bless, Love & Protect us All.
One thing that is nearly never talked about is, that with a nuclear war you will most certainly also destroy every nuclear power station in the world, which leads to a catastrophic fallout the world will maybe not recover from for a really long time.
As someone that lives in Australia, I see this as an absolute win. Please don't eat me.
As an Australian that knows we are allied with the US and other NATO nations and would likely join any war they are in, thus making us a potential target for a nuclear strike, just be sure to live outside of major urban areas :)
In the latest Scientific American there were some shocking simulations of how nuclear fallout from just ONE coordinated nuclear attack on US nuke silos would affect the radiation environment in the USA. Long story short - depending on the wind direction the "50-100% fatal" smoke plumes would either spread around to cover half of the continent or would form long smoke columns spreading from one end of America to the other. If that happens on a global scale the deadly radiation cloud would cover the entirety of the northern hemisphere and it would eventually also cross the equator. There is a story called "On the Beach" that discusses this scenario from the perspective of Melbourne (it was also adapted to 2 movies).
Australia is a nuclear target of China! Your happy of what? GOSH, what are people ignorant.
@@julianlowrise4981Wasting nukes on us is pointless, ever nuke not aimed at another world power is another chance for them to strike back
Bob the Tradie
That any politicians can actually think this is a scenario where they win is pure madness.
Putin does
They don't think they can win, if they did then the war would have happened already. Also, it's not only up to the politicians to take on this decision, there's an entire chain of command that needs to approve the launch of the first volley of missiles before the presidents presses the big red button themselves. This is a strange game where the only winning move is not to play it.
@@biggestnibbaBiden does
@@lloyan_ bullshit Biden isn't the one threatening nuclear war. No American is. No Chinese is either. Only Russia.
We just explained US vs Russia in 4 words
Imagine all the effort we made as a specie to get where we are now, to just get extinct because we decide to let a few of us playing Risk with the world.
Reminds me of the videos from the BBC TV movie Threads.
No one person should have this power over the whole planet. It's not just humanity but every living thing that's effected.
We need the big black guy from the Dark Knight prison boat to throw the nuclear detonation codes out of a window
@Io_Trading ... they do. Yes, someone like the US president or Putin only have the nukes of their own country, but it's not like nobody else is going to launch if either of them does.
@Io_Trading Because they have SO much reason to stop us from being stupid.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I think they need our blood to grow grass or some shit, I don't remember The War of the Worlds very well.
Rest of the world: Yay! There is salvation! 🇦🇷🇭🇲🇳🇿: Understood. We have to arm ourselves against hordes of starving people.
Well, Argentina and Australia are big countries, and the population of the rest of the world wouldn't be a lot of people alive. Even, they wouldn't be able to travel through sea or destroyed countries
Most of Australia is deserts
He forgot about Brazil. It makes no sense. Just check its food production
@@rogeriopenna9014they didnt mention Brasil because its too far up north. If u have not noticed he mentioned only countries that are THE furthest away from the north.
@rogeriopenna9014 brazil might be struck directly in a nuclear conflict, and its also far more affected by climate shifts than the others mentioned.
War, war never changes
And on top of all that they still didn't know if it might ignite the atmosphere 😮 during that time of development
It’s been a while since my last serious existential crisis. Thanks Kurzgesagt!
Relax, you won't live to see WW3
As an Australian, I’m not worried. We may even get some snow during winter for a few years.
@@victorhugo3952Putin: Hold my nuclear weapon
Yep, we're doomed
The thought of weapons with the capability to obliterate anything is scary…
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What are all these bots in the replies
War never changes
9:34 Yes.
Kurzgesagt has just created a worldwide boost to people looking up survivalist articles and prepping resources for the worst case scenario
how you prepare for >10 years of starvation?
@@games4us132 Firstly, move to Australia. Second, watch the world burn.
TBH. I hope my family and I just go in the blast. I wouldn't wish subsistence living in a post nuclear war world on anyone. This video also didn't cover nuclear fallout.
One thing I'll note for anyone who goes down the Prepper rabbit hole: A LOT of it, and I mean a LOT, is rooted in paranoid conspiracy theories, and is focused on preparing not so much for real-world-disaster scenarios but for disaster-movie scenarios. In particular, "prepper" materials tend to focus WAY too much time on how to defend yourself from hypothetical Mad Max esque roving gangs of raiders, as well as on hunting (which is only sustainable for a year tops in all but the most remote areas; if everyone hunts to survive, the wildlife population quickly collapses. Agriculture is an inescapable necessity for long-term survival), while spending much less time on the more mundane but infinitely more likely to be useful matters like treating disease or injuries without access to medical facilities, growing food without access to machinery or fertilizers, or working to rebuild communities. As a general rule--if the author of a book/article on survivalism has strong ties to any political movement, stay away.
@@MideanStonewith the way they've been recently, you literally would
If you think about it, it really is amazing how humanity has progressed from sword fight, to muskets and finally to an age where we can destroy ourselfves in a span of few minutes.
It took us longer to go from copper/bronze swords to steel swords than from steel swords to thermonuclear missiles
Einstein is rumoured to have said: "I know not what weapons will be used to fight world war 3, but I know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".
@@CircusFoxxothat’s actually so cool to think about. For 6.000 years the most advanced version of transportation of a human would be a man on a horse. How long until we have giant space ships
And the method has stayed the same at its very core, we still are throwing rocks at eachother. We just found shinier rocks to throw.
@@pain002150 to 300 years until giant spaceships?
I kinda expected a talk or two about nuclear radiation as the after effect of nuclear war.
The sad thing is the probability of this happening in our lifetime is really high, and growing every day.
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the "you're going to brazil" meme has a different vibe now
Argentina economy will improve exponentially.
I live in Southern Brazil already, guess I'm fine. Y'all welcome to my post nuclear apocalypse Brazilian BBQ party.
i am down@@gtPacheko
@@gtPacheko I'm starting to think that everyone on the internet is a Brazilian (Eu também sou do Brasil)
@@the0ne809 They will simply get invaded lol
no one should ever has this much lethal power
"The Cold and the Dark" by Carl Sagan and Paul Ehrlich is an in depth look at the ecological impacts of a nuclear war. But I haven't been able to find anything on the political impacts. @kurzgesagt touches on this briefly by mentioning Argentina, Australia & defending themselves from those looking to seize their food. Does any one else have conjecture along these lines?
Kurzgesagt is the type of channel that releases videos that destroy your faith in humanity right after restoring it.
How the hell you restore faith in humanity?
It's been mostly the former recently
who the fuck is kurzergart
They misspelled Kurzgabrot.
@@boiyofinallyfound kid get outta here