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Let's say you are right and we can farm the newly methane heavy, sinkhole infested permafrost in Russia and Canada. What does it mean for everyone else? Will they rely on food supply from Russia and Canada? Will Russia and Canada end up having huge migrations and become the biggest countries with billions of people?

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Would they rely on food produced in the newly fertile lands? Of course. They'd probably themselves move there in order to farm it. Russia might be the next super power simply due to a population rush from lower latitudes.

There is currently a climate-related "population rush" from Syria into Europe and South America into the USA. In both cases, refugees have been subjugated to extremely inhumane conditions. If the USA, the freest country on earth, has caged climate refugees in concentration camps, do you expect Russia to be more generious?

I've wondered this as well.

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