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[–] R34p_Th3_Wh0r1w1nd 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

If that zit pops, it's going to kill a lot of people. Most will die from breathing in the ash. If you look at volcanic ash under a microscope, it's more jagged then broken glass. That shit gets in your lungs and turns into something like concrete. One day, Yellowstone will create the best survivor reality show the world has seen in a very long time.

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[–] 11975141? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Eh. The most deaths are likely to be from inability to farm produce and therefore animals. The government on the east coast will all survive and mandate the area within a hundred miles or so of the west coast to produce food for all the remaining survivors and end up killing everyone by forcibly stretching food for a couple million out to probably several tens of millions of survivors.

It won't kill nearly as many people as everyone thinks, that's for sure. 90% of the major damage area is shithole nowhere.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss ago  (edited ago)

If there were a major eruption the next one to ten harvests wouldn't happen at all due to the ash blocking out the sun. The world's population would absolutely plummet if it were longer than one year. Give it another 50 years and IMO we'll be advanced enough to build enough grow lights and heaters as long as there's enough sun for the solar panels to power them. A hundred years after that and maybe we'll have the capacity to crash build generators to power all of that. Every year we're a step further from the end of the human race.

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[–] Le_Squish ago  (edited ago)

I'm pretty sure there is a historical precedent in Europe of exactly this happening.