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One of the many unknown and unforseeable ways in which the climate crisis might play out is that different countries have different imperatives. As temperature
by abraae 7y ago
One of the many unknown and unforseeable ways in which the climate crisis might play out is that different countries have different imperatives.
As temperatures rise, countries like Russia might well be net winners, as their frozen lands thaw out and become viable for agriculture.
When/if carbon capture becomes a reality, we'll have something of a global thermostat. What sort of wars will ensue to decide who gets to tweak the thermostat and whether it is turned up or down?
- bragh 7y agoAre there any soil biologists around on who can comment on the viability of this? Because as far as I understand, the land under permafrost in Russia is pretty much tundra and in Greenland, it's gravel. So it would take centuries to make it tillable compared to the timescale of decades we have before current breadbaskets lose the production capacity.
- pimmen 7y agoI would also like to hear from biologists or and agricultural scientists. Beneath the frozen tundra, there's vast reserves of natural gas and other fossil fuels, does this indicate that the soil has a lot of nutrients? If animals dies to become fossils, does it indicate lots of animals died there to fertilize the earth?