that article is the peak of liberal honkey reasoning, just ignores the fact that things are interdependent (sometimes in fucking hilarious ways like ignoring the sun), also casually ignores the culling of like…99.99999% of the global population, and 99.999999999999999% of its biomass

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Here he forgets the entire solar system would default to another orbit, around the second biggest thing (with a lot of crashing involved, maybe around Jupiter?). Not that important to the central point though, but this alone could easily split our planet in two lmao

Socially, immediate collapse.

Current installed geothermal capacity of earth supports only 4.2 million people (Iceland makes up 200k of these).

Oil/gas/coal will support a few more but I’m too lazy to do the calcs, and it’s not gonna be anywhere near enough because you’d need so much more oil per person, since:

1. all your food’s light now has to come from oil
2. you need to heat your house everyday because weather is colder than antarctica
3. because no sun, there is almost no rain, almost all your food’s water has to come from desalination
4. people are still going to want meat, and it’s doubtful if even a single person on the planet would be able to

This would not 10x an individual’s oil needs, it would 1000x or 10,000x them, maybe more

Also the infrastructure needed to even do this would need to be built, which…it’s not, let’s be real. Therefore:

Every single government will genocide 99.99999999999% of their population minimum, except Iceland, because Iceland gets 70% of their energy from geothermal. So that means that Iceland could get away with killing off only 30% of their population, right? WRONG! Because Iceland geotherm supports 200k in a world where THE SUN EXISTS. All the food they eat, 90% of the temperature above -94F that they enjoy, all the water they drink, is basically 95% powered by the sun. So really Iceland would also have to kill off…maybe 99.9% of its population?

This culling will be done within the first week, after a few days of pretending that everything is under control. There would be lies down the chain of command, every higher-up lying to their immediate lower that they’ll make it, even the state governors might be lied to by the feds and end up tapping out right after us. They’ll just cut the heating and everybody dies in a week.

A scramble to immediately start dumping fossil fuels for heat retention and for horticulture lights. All the oil wells set alight

All resources become useless except for geothermal zones, geothermal infrastructure, and desalination infrastructure (and oil/gas/coal). Humans are dumb, and governments would have the huge problem of panicked frenzied people, who would make the situation worse than it has to be. The individuals in charge of the literal nuke buttons may go rogue and try to flee to Iceland or something.

There would be an immediate bargain between Saudi Arabia and other world leaders to allow at least the leaders and their families into the Gulf States, since these hold 55% of global desalination capacity. Same with Iceland for geothermal capacity.

Normal nuclear war is more predictable than this by orders of magnitude

There is a VERY good chance (imo like 90%) that humanity literally goes extinct, because the supply chain intelligence to make plant-grow-lights, and the intel to keep the geotherm/oil/desal gets killed in the process, meaning not a single human can survive. One rogue guy can just bomb the infrastructure in Saudi/UAE/Iceland and other relevant places, and that’s extinction.