Contingency Planning
Recipe for Survival
Plan A. Let serendipity dictate when this, the world's largest stratovolcano, goes off, and possibly get extirpated.
Plan B. Set it off with a Russian Tsar hydrogen bomb in a controlled explosion, with increased survivorship.
This plan has the greatest potential to offset human mortality and cultural infrastructure destruction and some of the considerations include:
1. The first step is to set up a Canada/USA emergency planning committee and geoscience advisory panel and coordinate with the UN.
2. We need to control its timing and plan ahead for what is to come. Emergency shelters, heating especially, long term food storage and transport.
3. The most important aspect of this is to budget ahead and lay aside the enormous funds it would require. There is the very real possibility that most people could not afford to survive.
4. Stockpiles of food for ten years and do it while we have oil and a healthy economy. After the no oil-era comes its a no brainer that we won't have as easy a time of it.
5. Time it to coincide with the hot sun cycle and la Nina' and with favorable Pacific Decadel Oscillation timing. It needs to be done in summer in spring so there is a warm season and time to adapt. This also minimizes initial temperature drop. Winter would be more disastrous.
6. Move people out of the most dangerous countries and into optimum places for survival. The equatorial southern hemisphere will probably be the safest. This will be the largest mass exodus of humanity the world has ever seen requiring the most difficult adaptation especially for Americans and Canadians. Everything mobile in the zone of total destruction needs to be moved to a safe place, and this includes my guitar though I highly doubt I will see it. Dig tunnels for shelters and plan their heat, water and food supply.
7. We need to have those places fully stocked with long term provisions of all sorts, sewar and water and clothing.
8. Get the Russians to bomb Yellowstone with the Tsar and watch the fireworks.
9. Electric grids in the zones of total destruction need to be capable of rapid isolation from the general grid so that hydroelectric facilities and other power generators could possibly continue to work despite the loss of those in the zone. Nuclear power plants in the zone of destruction and human evacuation need decommissioning. Nuclear weapons and military and government hubs need to be removed to a safer location.
These are major considerations and much planning needs to happen of this thing is to be pulled off properly.
We can begin plan B final implementation when geologists tell us that the explosion is imminent. Hopefully, we will get the timing right.
What if repeated controlled bombing fails? Plan C.
Plan C. Faint Hope Plan. Taming the beast through technology. Cooling it through heat exchange and channeling the massive magma pool into workable subterranean magma rivers and ponds by nuclear and mechanical tunneling would be my obvious first thought. If it succeeds, this venture might be the best source of geothermal energy the world has ever seen.
What if Plan C fails? Plan A. There would be one happy camper in all of this. Russia. They would love to do the experiment I am sure. Lets hope we never have to find out.
Check out this site for more info.
http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/hazards.html
Draft Document subject to editing with more information. This issue is not a joke.
It is the most serious stuff humanity ever had to deal with, IF and when she is going to go.
© 2008 Jorma Jyrkkanen
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