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Eat Seaweed To Survive A Nuclear Apocalypse, Cries Science!

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Kay Smythe News and Commentary Writer
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A report published in early January detailed how we all need to eat seaweed to survive the nuclear apocalypse.

Seaweed farms should apparently replace 15% of the food humans are currently consuming in case we go into a nuclear winter, argue the researchers behind a new study published in the journal, Earth’s Future. “Abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios such as a nuclear winter caused by the burning of cities in a nuclear war, an asteroid/comet impact or an eruption of a large volcano inject large amounts of particles in the atmosphere, which limit sunlight,” the authors wrote in the most aggressively terrifying opening to an abstract I’ve ever read.

A limit on sunlight would destroy crops and other food sources all over the world. “Over 2 billion people would be in danger of starvation after a moderate India-Pakistan nuclear war and 5 billion people after a U.S.-Russia nuclear war,” study coauthor Cheryl Harrison told Live Science. “Thus, there is a need for exploration of alternative foods.” (RELATED: The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Did Not Create A ‘Nuclear Winter,’ Scientists Claim)

And the alternative is apparently seaweed. “The ocean, and water in general, has higher specific heat than land, so stores more heat, and it is harder to heat up and cool down. This is why radiators work so well. They store heat and radiate it over time,” Harrison said. “So, the ocean is a great place to target for alternative food production, as opposed to greenhouses on land, which would need a lot of heating in a time when fuel would be in high demand.”

Firstly, the Welsh have been eating seaweed for millennia, and it’s racist that no one else mentioned this until now. Secondly, seaweed is boring, and I don’t want to eat it all the time. How about people just start growing the hundreds of other types of livestock and vegetables we all enjoy that can be reared on very small plots of land?

If the slug people at the World Economic Forum, and other ugly lizards “controlling” our futures, actually gave a crap about anything but their own enrichment, every child would know how to grow fruits and vegetables from seed and could kill a chicken with their bare hands. But giving people the skills to actually feed themselves doesn’t make these globalist oligarchs any more money. (RELATED: The World’s Richest People Have A Plan For Food Shortages: The ‘Sniff Test’)

And if you, dear reader, had autonomy over your food supply … How much would you really need governments and their financial backers? I will ponder the answer to this question while you survey the current state of food and other essential supplies.

Oh, and none of this is relevant if we’re in a nuclear winter following a nuclear apocalypse. You’ll all be dead, and hopefully, I will be too.