How would our world sustain life after a nuclear war..?

Question

what could we do to survive...sorry I am watching the day after on sci-fi and got a little curiouse about surviving an atomic bomb..

Answer 1

I learned this in school, get under a desk and put your hands over your head!

Answer 2

You would have to stay in a huge hole dug inside the mountain with something blocking the way until the war ended. I dont remember which movie, but I remember that I watched a movie with them doing this to get away from something heh.

Answer 3

I don't think you could.  You would have to find the least contaminated area on the planet and hope the radiation didn't kill you.  If you were able to carry children and give birth they would have birth defects, and if by some miracle they didn't their children surely would.  I don't know how long it would take for the earth to ever be clean again if it's thousands or even millions of years but they already dropped a bomb on Hiroshima, and research Chernobyl.  My daughter's teacher is from there and everyone is suffering and dying from the after effects.  They just don't talk about it.  No one wants the world to know the horrors about the truth of their irresponsibleness.

As for the movie someone was referring to, wasn't that called "THE BEACH"?

Answer 4

The same way we would survive if a volcano, like Yellowstone, were to go off. Or an asteroid hit earth. but because we do not know, let's work on GW.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 5

rebel why did you follow me home. I thought I left you at the office lol

sounds silly but I have a ready pack on standby just in case of an emergency.  to live like rambo is to live free. okay so there's no toilet paper in the woods, use yogi bear. lol

Answer 6

fly to the moooooooon

or duck and cover lol

Answer 7

A more realistic show to watch would be the one airing now on Discovery or PBS or whatever.....that shows how wolves, moose and other wildlife are taking over Pripyat, near the site of the Chernobyl disaster.  Following the initial deaths, and some first generation birth defects, life is starting to come back.

Answer 8

Im looking into it, seems like we are headed in that direction with everything that is going on and the way god takes the best first i figure ima be here for a while so been looking at a building nuclear shelter and stocking it even if it don't happen its a COOL project and sumthing your kids would inherit and you could just have fun showing it off be careful who you show it to tho.

Answer 9

i guess your persuming that your the one that lives. to answer your question. 2 years of canned goods , location, location, location,    low profile...weapons, and sunglasses

Answer 10

Pretty much like it is now, but with somewhat limited availability of several items.