Shadowing Practice: What Happens AFTER Nuclear War? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Nuclear war would forever split human history into anything that happened before and the post -war apocalypse.
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In the worst case, mass fires consume everything within tens of thousands of square kilometers, killing hundreds of millions within hours.
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But the worst part comes after that.
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Nuclear war could trigger a nuclear winter that might kill billions, maybe even completely collapsing our civilization.
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how does it work and what would it look like fire causes winter
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when a nuclear weapon is detonated a bubble of gas hotter than the sun is forced into existence so hot
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that everything within kilometers immediately begins to burn the terror bubble
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expands rapidly filling the sky over its target creating a devastating shock wave
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that causes most of the immediate destruction basically you break a lot of stuff and set it on fire.
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And in the worst case, this turns into a firestorm that consumes everything and everyone on the ground.
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Right after the explosion, a gigantic mushroom cloud rises over the destruction like a demon throning over its perverse work.
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But in the following hours, a far more deadly cloud forms.
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The fire burning cities, forests, or fields heats up so much air that it creates its own microclimate and wind system.
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Hot air and hot smoke rise, pulling in fresh air from the surroundings and fresh oxygen stoking the flames even more.
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This creates an updraft and forms a colossal pyrocumulonimbus cloud
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that carries the soot and aerosols from the flames high into the stratosphere.
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Under normal conditions, the soot rising from a big fire is quickly washed out by rain.
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But a pyrocumulonimbus cloud can reach altitudes well above the height where rain clouds form.
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Once above the tropopores, there's simply no weather to remove soot from the atmosphere, so it can stay aloft for years.
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If this happens to a single city, it's a tragedy, but a fairly local one.
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But in a full -scale nuclear war, warring nations following the cold logic of mutually assured destruction could use hundreds or even thousands of nuclear weapons all at once,
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creating hundreds of firestorms, sending up to 150 million tons of soot, a cube the size of a skyscraper, directly into the stratosphere.
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In the next few days and weeks, the soot begins to blanket the Earth at high altitudes, absorbing light high above the ground and preventing sunlight from reaching the surface.
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This is not like science fiction, where the sky turns dark and the sun disappears.
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Winter is what happens when just a little less sunlight hits the ground, and now suddenly, a lot less sunlight gets through.
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Yesterday, the world was normal.
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Today, nuclear winter begins.
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Winter causes hunger.
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How bad nuclear winter would be is still an active area of research.
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It all hinges on one thing.
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How much stuff will burn really hot?
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How many firestorms will be caused by the heat of the explosions?
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This depends on many factors, from the materials the city is made of, to the time of the year, if a forest is nearby, and so on.
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So just keep in mind, we're working with some assumptions.
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Here's the good news.
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Nuclear winter is not permanent, and definitely no new ice age.
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The effects on the climate only last as long as the soot remains in the atmosphere, which is at most a decade or so until it clears out and temperatures normalize.
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The bad news is that this causes almost immediate climate change within a few weeks.
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It disrupts our climate system faster than any living being can adapt to.
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In this new climate, our seasons are suddenly all wrong.
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Winters are much longer, summers shorter and colder, or gone altogether.
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This also means less evaporation over the oceans, which means less rain and maybe large -scale droughts.
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This is bad because our food eats the sun.
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Without good summers and enough rain, growing seasons shrink or even collapse.
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The majority of humanity lives in an area called the mid -latitude, a strip of land that has the ideal temperature for our species.
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Not just because it's not too hot or cold, it's also where the plants we eat grow best.
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The vast majority of the food we eat stems from a few highly efficient crops
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that are mostly produced in a few very agriculturally productive regions, like the US Great Plains or Ukraine.
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From these bread and rice baskets of the world, they get traded and shipped around the world.
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In the worst case of a full -scale nuclear war, the temperatures in the mid -latitudes will probably stay below freezing for several years.
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Nothing at all can grow under these conditions, and the world's bread baskets would suddenly turn empty.
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If food production crashes, the world's food producers would very likely ramp up prices or even stop selling food to other countries,
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if they are still able to farm their fields at all.
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It's easy to calculate how many people can be alive on Earth.
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You take all the calories we can produce and divide them by what the average person needs to survive.
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If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks, you don't anymore.
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Humanity has only a few weeks' supply of crops and food, not enough to survive this drastic drop in production
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but the climate is not the only issue modern industrialized agriculture is a complex affair
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that relies on functioning supply chains to provide unthinkable amounts of industrially produced fertilizer
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and chemicals to kill weeds
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and vermin massive numbers of specialized modern machinery is plowing sewing harvesting
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and distributing after a nuclear war especially if the countries
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that produce the food were part of the nuclear exchange there may simply be no more fuel, fertilizer, or machine parts, because there are no more oil refineries,
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ports, and other essential infrastructure left, damaging global food production even more.
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Okay, so now that we've set the stage, let's look at what science says about the actual wars that could happen.
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Actual nuclear war.
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Today, there are two main conflicts that scientists think about when making calculations of nuclear winter, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and one between the US and Russia.
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The most likely smallish nuclear exchange would be fought today between India and Pakistan, with relatively low -yield weapons.
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Even in a pretty mild nuclear war like this, the immediate explosions would kill around 27 million people, which is horrible enough.
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In just a few hours, more people would die than in all of World War I.
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The ensuing fires would not cause a nuclear winter, but a mild nuclear autumn.
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But even this would disrupt the climate and thereby global agriculture, enough to starve up to 250 million people worldwide.
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Unfortunately, India and Pakistan are in an arms race and have been increasing the number and power of warheads in their arsenal.
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The next stage of escalation would be war with hundreds of nuclear weapons,
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the bombs and fires destroying many major population centers and killing over 100 million people.
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A war on this scale would cause a nuclear winter
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that would damage global agriculture enough to cut the available calories for humanity in half.
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The number of people that starve to death would be as high as 2 billion.
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One in four humans alive today.
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The worst -case scenario is a full -scale global war between NATO nations and Russia, or China, which also continues to build its nuclear arsenal.
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In a war between a former, future and current superpower, thousands of nuclear weapons could be detonated.
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In a scenario with around 4 ,400 nuclear weapons, 360 million people would perish right away.
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We have no other event to even compare the death and destruction to.
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It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself.
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The nuclear wind that follows such an apocalyptic war would tank human calorie production by as much as 90%.
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Not only would almost all of our agriculture take an immediate and deadly hit, the climate would take at least a decade to recover.
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Because a war like this would specifically hit the world regions that produce most of the food for humanity, recovery will be much, much harder than with other conflicts.
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Within two years, the global death toll from starvation could rise to about 5 billion.
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In mid -latitude countries like Russia, China, Canada, the US and much of Europe, only a few percent of the population might survive.
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Humanity will never be the same again.
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While nowhere is truly safe, some nations in the Southern Hemisphere may fare well enough to endure while the rest of the world collapses.
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All the nuclear weapon states are in the Northern Hemisphere, so a few countries like Australia, New Zealand
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and Argentina may be able to endure for a bunch of
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different reasons their nuclear winter would be milder they have a lot of livestock
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that would not be as affected as crops
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so they would probably stop exporting food
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and focus on keeping their own people alive assuming they aren't
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invaded for their food by other starving nations it's safe to say
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that the world would become extremely unpleasant for a long time
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and it's impossible to know how many people would have died
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when the nuclear winter ends in the worst case human civilization could collapse
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and the survivors would be thrown back thousands of years slowly trying to recover a world full of scars
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and graves eventually when they've rebuilt civilization
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would they ever build nuclear weapons again we know for sure
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that we need to do anything we can to make sure
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 122 zinnen en 1804 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:08. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 162 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| humanity zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | mensheid, mensdom |
| cloud zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | wolk |
| agriculture zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/ | landbouw, agricultuur |
| destruction zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/ | vernietiging |
| collapse werkwoord | /kəˈlæps/ | instorten |
| calorie zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkæləɹi/ | calorie |
| explosion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/ | explosie, ontploffing |
| crop zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɹɑp/ | gewas, voedselgewas |
| mild bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmaɪld/ | mild, zacht |
| civilization zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | beschaving |
| sunlight zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ | zonlicht |
| latitude zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlætɪtud/ | breedtegraad |
| starve werkwoord | /stɑɹv/ | verhongeren, sterven van de honger |
| atmosphere zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ | atmosfeer, dampkring |
| arsenal zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑːsənəl/ | arsenaal, wapenmagazijn |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| watch out | pas op |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is detonated · will be caused · is made |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | we've set · We've compiled · you've unlocked |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | atmosphere, which is · oceans, which means · people, which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we've, aren't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: throne /θɹəʊ̯n/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, philanthropy /fɪˈlæn.θɹə.pi/, unthinkable /ʌnˈθɪŋkəbəl/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, wash /wɑʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, agriculture /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als humanity, cloud, agriculture.
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Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.