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What is the most future-proof country?
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Like in terms of climate change, political climate, wars, etc. 
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Not really unfortunately. It will be warm enough to live there more comfortably, but the land isn't very usable compared to where people live now. Most of the tundra has very thin rocky soil and it is waterlogged and swampy. Just because it is warmer there doesn't mean the actual ground becomes like the soil farther south
Isn’t de-thawed permafrost really good for growing food tho? Besides the y’know possible disease and shit.
We don't know what's trapped inside the permafrost, as it thaws we might unleash some sort of super bacteria or even worse, the Reagan/Thatcher blood amalgam trapped beneath trapped below
The horrors of our cyberpunk future, where the Reagan flu or Thatcher cough take you…
Idk, from a nutrients/chemical standpoint probably? The issue is that there's like an inch of two of it over bedrock, instead of feet worth of good topsoil. There just isn't enough of it to grow food on the scale we do now with current methods. Not to say any of that is technically impossible, just that it would be a massive megaproject the likes of which humanity has rarely seen
That’s true… might happen that they pool all the permafrost earth into areas for farming. But indeed, a megaproject for the ages.
Probably the grasslands in Russia would be easier to manage. Just get a bunch of megafauna to stamp and poop around for a decade or two.