Australia would be the safest place to go if the planet faced an apocalyptic pandemic, experts have concluded. The authors of the study in Risk Analysis Journal say they chose the country because it has so much wide-open space and is rich in resources. “If a population of agriculturally and industrially flourishing humans and resources could be partitioned from those afflicted by the disaster, then prospects for recovery post-catastrophe would be optimised,” they say.
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