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Those were all human-created events. What happens when we have a super-volcano eruption and the world has another mini-ice age, and there are famines across the globe? Or the coastal flooding that is predicted to happen by 2050 if we continue current warming trends. We can't just force nature to give up through a superior show of force (unlike winning a war).


Coastal flooding would largely be economic damage - mostly distributed to a small segment of the population, not societal collapse.

Food shortages caused by climate change, on the other hand...




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