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If you live in Russia or Canada, global warming is a gift from God that will convert useless tundra into a fertile paradise. Everything is relative.
Let's see about that paradise when the bacteria and other bad stuff in the permafrost gets unfrozen.
Let's also see how people currently living in those areas feel about the "paradise" when everybody else who has the means will try to go there since it's the only livable area.
Not to mention how "livable" it actually would be, with extreme weather, flooding from icecaps melting and other weather effects I have no idea about.
Don’t forget about all the methane that will be released as it warms, accelerating climate change.
At this point the countries in temperate climates would seal their borders. The people living near the equator will become stuck, dependent on the the richer nations for their very survival. Once the effects of global warming began creeping up toward the United States and Europe, we will use our superior firepower to force an oil embargo on weaker nations.
It's going to be fucked up and evil, but it's unlikely to be uniformly bad for everyone. From an economic perspective, alot of people will benefit.
The wealth of industrialized nations is only possible through exploitation of developing countries. When conditions there become literally unlivable, everything collapses and everyone loses. maybe russia could slightly benefit since they aren't doing super well as is and have a lot of land that will become pretty good. Even then, they can kiss goodbye to seafood forever, and it certainly won't be easy.
It takes a long bloody time to build up topsoil. Ex-tundra will shit for agriculture for decades at best and centuries without borderline terraforming
There's a whole lot of Canada south of the tundra. We don't need to make the north "useful" at the expense of the rest of the country.
I just used Tundra as a filler for "cold as shit" areas. The temperate region will basically move further up north from the equator.
...granted, having more valuable land isn't necessarily a good thing once you consider your neighbors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgDdHRs_xY%3Ft%3D1027s
If you don't take into account the fact it will also convert a fertile paradise of southern parts of country into a hot hell. I don't think even ex-tundra will really be stable for long at that point