1. Bear Ribs

    Culture America Culture, the Rise of DOOM, and the Yellowstone Variable, or How Living With A Timebomb Changed the American Psyche.

    Vesuvius was small potatoes. When Tambora cooked off, it produced The Year Without a Summer, also called Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death or the Poverty Year. Yellowstone is significantly bigger than Tambora.
  2. Bear Ribs

    Culture America Culture, the Rise of DOOM, and the Yellowstone Variable, or How Living With A Timebomb Changed the American Psyche.

    One of the most beautiful, wonderland-like places on earth. The problem is all that magic comes from a supervolcano right under the surface with an ungodly amount of magma practically under our feet. If it every decides to cook off instead of just producing hot springs and geysers, it will...
  3. Bear Ribs

    Culture America Culture, the Rise of DOOM, and the Yellowstone Variable, or How Living With A Timebomb Changed the American Psyche.

    I don't think Yellowstone is the issue. Worry about Yellowstone erupting is a micro-fraction of the amount of Doomsday worry the US had compared to the constant spectre of nuclear war between the US and USSR during the cold war. That was something we thought and worried about, and got told...
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