• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Sure you aren't mixing this up with Canada/Greenland? It was my understanding that the soil in the tundra regions of Canada was extremely poor and useless for agriculture, while Russia's was qualitatively different and easier to farm in

    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Though climate change will expand arable land in Russia in its northern latitudes, the northern topsoil tends to be thinner and more acidic than in Russia's most productive southern regions and would not make up for its losses. In fact, arable land shrank by more than half to just 120,000 acres in 2017.

      https://www.csis.org/analysis/climate-change-will-reshape-russia

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Interesting. I believe Canada is also similarly fucked or even worse, as their land will thaw into disease ridden stony swamps