• DarkThoughts
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    210 hours ago

    Quantity does not equal quality. Most of Russia is harsh and mostly useless tundra.

    • @dirthawker0
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      28 hours ago

      Climate change (specifically global warming) will make it better

      • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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        1 hour ago

        Not really. Taiga gets very little precipitation. If you warm it up, it’ll turn into arid grass/shrubland, like most of Kazakhstan.

        • @NotMyOldRedditName
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          22 hours ago

          As warming changes, all the weather patterns we know and expect are going to change with it as well. It might not remain arid.

      • @[email protected]
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        47 hours ago

        Melted permafrost doesn’t turn into valuable farmland. It will also cause higher CO2 emissions.

      • DarkThoughts
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        26 hours ago

        Not really. Melted permafrost leaves unstable terrain and the soil is still going to be lacking nutrients.