Re: PERIPHERAL - bio/ecological query

From: Bret Kulakovich (bret@bonfireproductions.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 06:51:54 MST

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    I would take a look at the Japanese Anime Nausicaa series...
    Everything is macroculture fungii. But I would definitely say
    distopian visions are sort of not extrpoian?

    Cheers,

    Bret Kulakovich
    Who .sigs his whole name because there is already a Brett, a B and
    other permutations thereof.

    Russell B Wrote:
    >This is a peripheral query so read no further if that bothers you.
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    >Okay, imagine a fairly full-on nuclear exchange causes a dark
    >nuclear winter of several months' duration. Imagine further that the
    >global climate thereafter tips over into something like ice-age
    >temperatures. I'm stuck with this scenario so I don't want debate
    >about its plausibility.
    >
    >IF it happened like this, what would the major tropical/equatorial
    >forests of places like Brazil look like after, say, 15-30 years?
    >Presumably they would die but a lot of the big trees would remain
    >standing. What sort of new vegetation could we expect to grow in
    >what waa left of these jungles? It is difficult to imagine that many
    >of the original animals would survive but some kind of animal
    >life...if only the proverbial cockroaches...might thrive. I'm not
    >even sure of what temperatures we would get in these regions.
    >Presumably they would be fairly mild even if the temperate zones
    >were now very cold, even in summer.
    >
    >Does anyone have the kind of expertise to have an informed idea on
    >these points?
    >
    >Russell B
    >
    >http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellblackford/
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