Comment by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml on What is the most future-proof country?

Like in terms of climate change, political climate, wars, etc.

Canada could win climate change.

Until the US inevitably annexes it :(

I can’t tell if you are serious. The country is so far up north and more than two thirds of the people live close to the US border.

Isn’t the point that global warming could make a lot more of the country liveable? Same with Russia, climate change could potentially turn frozen tundra into usable land.

climate change could potentially turn frozen tundra into usable land.

Not really unfortunately. It will be warm enough to live there more comfortably, but the land isn’t very usable compared to where people live now. Most of the tundra has very thin rocky soil and it is waterlogged and swampy. Just because it is warmer there doesn’t mean the actual ground becomes like the soil farther south

Isn’t de-thawed permafrost really good for growing food tho? Besides the y’know possible disease and shit.

We don’t know what’s trapped inside the permafrost, as it thaws we might unleash some sort of super bacteria or even worse, the Reagan/Thatcher blood amalgam trapped beneath trapped below

The horrors of our cyberpunk future, where the Reagan flu or Thatcher cough take you…

Idk, from a nutrients/chemical standpoint probably? The issue is that there’s like an inch of two of it over bedrock, instead of feet worth of good topsoil. There just isn’t enough of it to grow food on the scale we do now with current methods. Not to say any of that is technically impossible, just that it would be a massive megaproject the likes of which humanity has rarely seen

That’s true… might happen that they pool all the permafrost earth into areas for farming. But indeed, a megaproject for the ages.

Probably the grasslands in Russia would be easier to manage. Just get a bunch of megafauna to stamp and poop around for a decade or two.

It’s not that simple. Sunlight is still an issue because that’ll still limit the growing season and the soil itself is extremely poor.

No it couldn’t. The soil in the vast majority of Canada is shit/nonexistent. The good soil is in the southern parts of the country and already being farmed. The northern parts are all bedrock with a thin layer of pine needles sprinkled on top. Good luck growing anything on that.

Maybe. I didn’t think about this angle.

that global warming could make a lot more of the country liveable?

Global warming was melting roads in Canada like 2 years ago

Yeah but melty roads is a smaller issue than the apocalyptic famines anyone further south is gonna face.

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