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

[Arch Dornan]

Even if the Oahu and Las Palmas slides happened simultaneously and Yellowstone erupted, the trans-Appalachian and inland east coast would collectively retain enough population and industry to be one of the ten most powerful countries on the planet. We’d even have enough shipbuilding industry to build 50,000 ton light carriers on the Gulf Coast.

It does sound fun to write for a doomsday book that's more plausible than that movie with the drastic change in environment that US refugees fleeing to Mexico ironically.

 

[Sailor.X]

I hate to bring this up but Yellowstone is not the only Supervolcano waking up. Lake Toba - Wikipedia

 

[Bassoe]

Even if the Oahu and Las Palmas slides happened simultaneously and Yellowstone erupted, the trans-Appalachian and inland east coast would collectively retain enough population and industry to be one of the ten most powerful countries on the planet. We’d even have enough shipbuilding industry to build 50,000 ton light carriers on the Gulf Coast.

Even if the industries aren’t buried in magma, what’re the workers eating? No sunlight through the ash in the atmosphere means no agriculture.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I hate to bring this up but Yellowstone is not the only Supervolcano waking up. Lake Toba - Wikipedia

Pfffbbbttt let the Indonesians ChiComs deal with Lake Toba, we have at least four local worldwide disasters threatening us already. #AmericaFirst