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Russia is supposed to be nicer. Some people believe it’ll become the bread basket of the world if climate change continues unabated.
by jdavis703 5y ago
Russia is supposed to be nicer. Some people believe it’ll become the bread basket of the world if climate change continues unabated.
- tootie 5y agoAnd it will likely open the Arctic ocean for much shorter shipping lanes from Russia to Canada.
- dv_dt 5y agoI think that’s a simplistic view of it. As far as I’ve followed along, Russia has been having droughts and mega fires which tend to be incompatible with high crop yields.
- sgillen 5y agoWell I believe the droughts and wildfires are not really occurring in Siberia, which is the area I think some are speculating will become a breadbasket. Edit: I was wrong.
- 3327 5y agoThere are unprecedented wild fires in siberia. What are you talking about!
- wiredearp 5y agoPerhaps they argue for this case over in https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russ.... I haven't read the article, I just keep the bookmark around.
- headstorm 5y agoLiving around Seattle, I disagree, lately there have been articles just about every year about wildfires or drought in Siberia, and many about those fires causing smoky skies in Seattle. This summer: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/05/siberia-forest-fires-fueled-by-historic-drought-heatwave-a74427 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/05/siberia-forest-fir... 2019: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/unprecedented-number-of-fires-in-siberia-to-blame-for-washingtons-hazy-skies/281-ff8fbdf1-8188-4a30-be7a-220f0de1eb6a https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/unprecedented-numbe... 2018: https://crosscut.com/2018/07/first-smoky-skies-season-arrive-seattle-siberia https://crosscut.com/2018/07/first-smoky-skies-season-arrive...
- ancientworldnow 5y agoSiberia has awful soil that doesn't have nearly the nutrients necessary to support large scale agriculture even if the temperature shifts. You could fix that, but it would take the same amount of time as trying to fix climate change (at least on a big enough scale).
- laurent92 5y agoTalking about megafires, Chernobyl’s surroundings are sitting under dry leaves, because bacteria and insects have defects and don’t decompose them properly.
- zardo 5y agoSure but give it a few thousand years
- bserge 5y agoYeah, "some people" being Russian. Fooling themselves like the rest of the world.
- trollski 5y agoyou are a patentable moron
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoDo you think thawed permafrost is usable as arable land with the snap of a finger? Furthermore one could wonder what else will thaw and give us some nasty surprises. Im thinking of the scene in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says: 'Life finds a way.'