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> Hope they find ways to adapt with the help of modern tools, but of course it's easier said than done, specially when they probably don't have any money to invest in things that could help and even if they could, the infrastructure just doesn't exist.

Only way so far apparently in Mongolia has been to migrate to cities.

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The overwhelming majority (90%+, IIRC) of Mongolia already lives in Ulanbataar.

They have different winter-related problems there (severe coal smog) but at least they're not at the mercy of ice on the pastures.

Not sure why you think that? The nomadic population is between 25%-30%, two sources: 1) World bank gives 25% "around one quarter of households live nomadic life in Mongolia" https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/counting-uncounted-how-...; 1) Wikipedia gives 30%, "Approximately 30% of the population is nomadic or semi-nomadic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia.

Population of of Ulaanbataar is 1.6M, Mongolia as a country is 3.3M. So just under 50% live in the capital city.

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