Yellowstone Super Volcano

[HarleyDog]

(10-17-2017, 07:41 AM)Stewy Wrote: It certainly won't kill all life.  It's been going off for millions of years and life continues.

While it won't necessarily mean the end of human life, I think it would mean the end of life as we know it.

Only those in the immediate vicinity would be killed instantly, and that isn't a densely populated area in any direction for hundreds of miles.

After the initial explosions, which will likely be felt around the world, it's the ash fall that is the long term concern.

Think decades of on and off Nuclear Winter without the initial death toll of Nuclear War to limit the consumption of resources.  The world will starve.  Anarchy.  Collapse of infrastructure, but a limited number of humans will survive (probably world leaders in well stocked nuclear bunkers and remote back wood naturalists who can live off the land) as the death toll mounts and the World settles into it's inevitability.  Instant Death would probably be preferable......

I can live with that!