text: what do you think will happen when the next mini or full ice age hits? historical evidence indicates that we will eventually hit another mini or full fledged ice age (this has nothing to do with fossil fuel and the evil president bush).  the last mini-ice age that hit europe and lasted for about 500 years was devastating to the population.  if this hits again and is as severe, how will the world cope with having to feed and house a starving europe. yeah, i saw that on tv last night, due to a volcano erruption in europe (we could also do this with nuck weapons)  not only would europe be starving, but the america's (n & s), africa, asia, and austrailia (wow, never noticed that most start with an a... anyway's) depending on the severity of it.   sever: i guess humanity would degress to the dark ages (if we were really bad).  we'd probably slowly start to loose our technology, and after time, we'd be back in the dark ages.  almost extinct if really bad (like an all out nuck war).  humans have a big period of anmisia...during christ's time, in the alexandian libraray theologians had already come close to making steam engins, and flying macheins.  somewhere, we experienced a change, which set us into the dark ages, so since history repeats itself, there u go.  low to moderate: and if there was a continent that was able to produce food, i'd see the world community comming together and we would turn that area into a giant farm.  they'd be rich like the middle east (with a large separation of class), and