If Yellowstone erupts, how fucked is humanity?

You could expect:

>skyrocketing price of food as global agriculture breaks down due to ash cloud
>global starvation for those who cannot afford food
>resource wars over arable land
>massive displacement, global refugee crisis as people leave the hardest hit areas
>extreme disruption of the globalized economy - every day amenities become luxuries

best case scenario: most world governments remain stable if they handle the crisis promptly and efficiently. life would be difficult and many people will have died. likely setback in growth of technology as resources and labor are diverted to sustenance

worst case scenario: complete breakdown in global order

South America would be better off, most of their wealth is exported to the north, and you know, it can't be understated how awesome of a job the CIA did at destabilizing the entire region.
If the human race continues it's in South America, Africa, and Australia - god help us.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>sudden elimination of the lynchpin of world economy and security
>everything is fine

>no more petrodollar
>everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

Tambora is 1815 caused worldwide famine and an entire year without sun in a lot of countries, it even changed the pattern of oceanic flow and wind.

Yellowstone is colossal and far, FAR more powerful than Tambora, it would certainly cause hundreds of millions to die in the first few years and potentially a billion or more mid to long-term due to climate change, the mass extinctions in species of fauna and flora that are guaranteed to happen and food in general becoming a thousandfold more expensive.

North America is fucked, buried under a foot of volcanic ash. Other nations can survive, if they immediately draft all able-bodied people and start constructing giant hydroponics towers and nuclear powerplants that will feed the population through the giant ice age about to come. Nuclear power alone cannot save humanity though, as only a select few countries will have access to necessary fuel in the coming decades, so all research is diverted to nuclear fusion. Billions will die, especially in the less developed countries, but a good percentage of Western Europeans will survive.

What will actually happen: Wars and famines until human civilization dies an icy death.

I also forgot the guaranteed civil wars and chaos worldwide, with potential for a 4th world war for resources since survival would be on the line for billions.

>Tambora
You mean the one located directly on the equator?
If/when yellowstone goes, it's strictly a northern hemisphere problem. That ash will not move south of the equator because of how the prevailing winds work.
All the people in the southern hemisphere need to worry about it how to machine gunning the refugees from the north at their border.

who let you out of containment? go back to ur safe space faggot

Less fucked than Nuclear War

Wouldn't the drastic temlerature differences in the hemispheres cause a change in wind patterns? Right now it is based off of one being much more exposed to the sun while the other is underexposed due to planetary tilt. After Yellowstone, the debris in the atmosphere would reduce temperatures even during northern hemisphere summer. This would create a huge change in the global temperature gradients. Would that not alter atmospheric pressure and winds?

Should I be worried about Yellowstone erupting in my lifetime?

Nah

Given your lack of ability to do anything about it, there is no benefit to you thinking about it.

>bulliondollar
>somehowyouthinkthisisbetter.jpg
>itsnot.jpg

looks like someone's read Epictetus

It has been erupting for a very long time now.

>mfw ill get to laugh at dead americans for a few months until everyone dies due to ash, triggered disasters, and resulting global collapse

latitude, dude
youtu.be/UrzOU03p8dA?t=21m20s

>faggot
Who let you out of your containment board? Go back to Veeky Forums is an inclusive board

Another one is in Italy - Campi Flegrei

news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/supervolcano-campi-flegrei-stirs-under-naples-italy/

>4th
uh...

unironically cryptocurrency could become implemented worldwide if America falls as a global power

Is there any feasible way to prevent a major eruption or at least negate the consequences of one (let's pretend congress would actually fund a science)?

No. 90% of humanity will die out. Realistically speaking only top secret military or government groups that have been actively researching and planning for such a doomsday scenario would survive. Assuming if an ice age does happen, pretty much every single "western" 1st world country will be fucked with eternal sub zero temperatures, and any remaining survivors would migrate to countries near the equator. Depending on how we treated shitskins and refugees during our height of power, they could either allow us into their countries or build walls to keep us out.

It would require so many resources to actually stop an eruption like that that it would actually be cheaper to just restart humanity honestly.

>tfw new Englander
Feels good to live in one of the safest, most sustainable places on earth
I even live on a hill, so I dont have to worry about floods either

You can drill into trouble spots ahead of time to releive pressure, but its a massive volcanoes and drillung like that is expensive and me harmful to the environment
We could however use these holes for geothermal plants, but ibdont see this happening soon since it is a national park after all

people aren't reciprocal

>If Yellowstone erupts, how fucked is humanity?

Australia will be OK

USA will be destroyed

May god help us all.

>90% of humanity will die out

USA will collapse.

Australia will be fine

Poltard incursion detected

>No more petrodollar
>All the easy energy is used up
>We suddenly HAVE to use fission
>Fission dollar activated
>100 years later people bitching about big fission

seems like I'm fine all the way here in Florida

>What will actually actually happen
>The same thing america has been doing but all for uranium instead of oil

Hope you brought your snorkel.

No, Veeky Forums is an autistic elitist board

How will it happen? Will it just go all out without warning or maybe as a series of smaller eruptions and earthquakes?

Lol

Why can't I have a nice Sheila

Amerimutts get totally destroyed. The rest of the world cheers as the country of the devil is gone.

Not so fast Aussies
A Yellowstone eruption would destabilize the climate on entire Earth.

Droughts in Australia. Ice age in Europe.
Ashes covering North America.
It would cause Crop loss in entire world.

And famine, civil war, epidemics and poverty in Africa. Although Africa won't change that much since there are already famine, civil war, epidemics and poverty in Africa.

fuck off faggot

Not THAT fucked.
Expect for the americans. They dun goofed, their entire continent will be bedridden with famines and general anarchy. Countries where winters are cold will most likely freeze to death. Australia, southern africa, the middle east, the balkans and parts of central europe would be fine.

I think that New zealand is the safest place.

Since Australia would be hit by droughts.

Super Rich billionaires are buying bunkers in New Zealand.
youtube.com/watch?v=K1zVAfE0YdA

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190322/Tech-billionaires-building-boltholes-New-Zealand.html

theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/silicon-valley-new-zealand-apocalypse-escape

stuff.co.nz/national/88712766/super-rich-preppers-buying-up-in-new-zealand-in-case-of-us-collapse

newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

Probably the latter. But knowing our gov, nothing will be done about it anyways.

Nuke Yellowstone Kimmy

As bonus: an EMP to cause power outages in entire USA.

this, unironically
we can easily survive yellowstone, but ongoing extinction of white race is imminent

Which is weird since New Zealand's on a fault line

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Nice b8

>This thread
The absolute state of Veeky Forums - Science & Math

kek

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Depends on the sort of eruption. If it asplodes all fast, that's gong to get all bad.

Lava flows, though, only suck if you are standing there.

>North America ... buried under a foot of ash...

Why didn't that happen the last times it erupted?

sloves the global warming problem

would have a positive effect in the long run

>North America ... buried under a foot of ash...

That sounds like a really cool opening to a post-apoc game.

Humanity? Not really. Am*ricans? Quite fucked thankfully.

so basically nuclear power will finally win the argument

>mfw we achieve a nuclear power / hydroponic hippie synthesis

I mean, in this scenario you'd still have a bunch of nuclear facilities going off if they're located in the direct blast zone.

Perth will finally have its day as the bastion of civilization. Just imagine it cunts...

Why is everyone on this board acting like an explosion that is roughly quadrillions of TNT or a teraton in force wont cause mass extinctions on the land globally?

we don't eat most of them anyway

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In green where most people actually live.

or someone has basic damn common sense

Not in green is where their food comes from.

>mfw suburban and rural "retards" starve out degenerate city trash

> The USA is the only country in the world

Your whining about pol is worse than pol posters. They get bored and go away while you keep them engaged for not reason other than a desire for a pat on the head from Veeky Forums. Sorry doggie, no head pat for you.

Not everyone has to work on the fields for food, redneck. People have invented supermarkets and other things as an alternative.

the only one that spends any money on its military

have fun euros, I'm sure israel and african nations will rise up and save you from russia and china

>save you from russia

Remember me who is the president of the USA ? I think it's the US that should be concerned about Russia right now.

>USA has huge problem
>not thinking USA will make everyone else pay for it

Your president is literally a russian spy currently under investigation.
>murrica

Supermarkets' Foods come from the Rural fields & crops. Brainlet.

If the Crops are destroyed how you can supply the Supermarkets with food?

From where will you get your food? From your ass?

or what, they'll buy ads on facebook and troll twitter

oh noooo not free speech how are we going to manage quick burn the constitution

>There's another supervolcano in Italy... and it could be waking up as we speak

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!

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Most of the nation’s food comes from California, unless you count corn syrup.

We could always just eat your guys’ charred bodies.

precooked

>Wouldn't the drastic temlerature differences in the hemispheres cause a change in wind patterns?
Unless it stops the earth from spinning coriolis effect means the rotating bodies of air stay locked in their hemispheres.
It's the reason you don't see a hurricanes and typhoons crossing the equator. Obviously some is going to bleed over because air mixes, but it's going to be negligible to the southern hemisphere.
The social collapse is another can of worms, but ecologically the effects south of the equator are going to be negligible.