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>>Berisl+(OP)
There's a huge variety of potential futures for the humankind. Best case create a friendly AGI, power society with fusion power stations, renewables and batteries, eliminate poverty, hunger and wars, build colonies in space and on Mars.

Worst case runaway global warming, leading to a major disruption of the world climate - e.g. like the one in "The Day After Tomorrow". Non-stop wars for resources, with the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Complete global collapse of society and civilization.

One big problem with collapse are the 400+ commercial nuclear reactors in the north hemisphere. Without connection to a working electric grid and regular diesel deliveries those will go boom and will spread enough radioactive material to make most of the land on Earth deadly for humans.

>>boriss+i6
> One big problem with collapse are the 400+ commercial nuclear reactors in the north hemisphere. Without connection to a working electric grid and regular diesel deliveries those will go boom and will spread enough radioactive material to make most of the land on Earth deadly for humans.

Seriously, where do people get these ideas from ? This unfounded fear of nuclear fission is a huge reason why we're in this mess to begin with.

>>Galaxe+J8
What do you think happens with nuclear fuel when there is no electricity to cool it? Check what happened at Fukushima when the grid went down and the diesel generators were flooded.

>>boriss+69
If something catastrophic enough to instantly cut off there whole grid in the west happens while also ruining all the several backups most plants have, nuclear power plants will be the least of our troubles. Fukushima was a very old design and most plants in operation today don't need power for the cooling system after you jam in the control rods into the reactor to stop it.