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Soo all of you said that you are from the US, you are dead! The supervolcano destroyed everything, the whole US. I think the "volcanic erruptions" shaped the world, so maybe it could be a new place, not the ol' countries...

I will be from the Carpathian Basin, so quite near to Italy..
Expect my character soon
 
Hmm... that winter and the blocked atmosphere should have frozen earth over. In 2023 when the sun's light can once again reach earth's surface wouldn't all that ice melt and the sea level rise to a critical level only leaving a few countries above the sea?

Even if 9% of the population survived I'm sure the people would be far separated from each other; and biodiversity has lowered drastically.
 
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You were correct until the melting part. Sun reaches Earth nowadays too, but I don't see Antarctica turning into water in a matter of years.

The nuclear winter ending does not cause a flood, it just makes the conditions bareable. Allowing plantlife of the temperate climate to grow in most locations. However the sea level is stil very low, former seabed is a desert and the glaciers still cover all of Scandinavia, northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada.
 
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Well, as Ice Age showed, higher life forms such as mammals still manage to survive, so people would use the stockpiles left from civilized age as well as hunting. The more advanced groups could probably have created greenhouses.

Still, cannibalism is inevitable in such situations, as history shows.
 
Now that I think of it, technology should have advanced from 2016-2023, so it might be possible that humans have prepared for the second ice age; but then again that might be out of the question.

Anyways assuming that only half of the total number of creature that survived were humans: if not all of them were lucky enough to stay in some sort of greenhouse to survive, and other people wanted to survive too but the greenhouses can't support anymore life, wouldn't that be a disaster?

So: people in greenhouses + people not in them but wanted to survive = (If and if the two parties found each other) possible disaster?

I don't think I'm making my point clear so I'll try again: assuming that the life-support advanced groups created can only support a limited number of lives, what would happen to the unlucky bunch that can't reach or be a part of life support? Won't those people do whatever they can to be able to survive? Even kill for personal gain?
 
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Well of course humans will not suddenly become humanistic and do what's best for mankind. Most will just be trying to save themselves, that means that the communities that did establish greenhouses or even electricity would be under constant attacks from other survivors, until the majority of people died.
After that the human survivors are pretty far from each other, people only being able to survive in underground facilities or fortresses with greenhouses.
 
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Well the dust in the atmosphere would fall down, meaning that much more sun reaches the surface. That means that even though the world is still in an Ice Age, it's possible to live on the surface now, unless you're too far north. So plantlife is restoring itself, covering lands where it used to be and animal life follows.
 
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