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I think that if climate change causes a lot of snow in the north to melt, it will create a lot of new arable space further north that people could potentially migrate to (even from other countries, eg climate migrants from the inhabitable equator)
(disclaimer: never been to Canada)
We’ve been choked by forest fire every summer for a few years now. I hear some of the boreal forest that burned down is coming back as plains. Also, we never stopped clearing new farmland around the high 50’s latitude, interestingly.
It’s really noticeable already this far north. People will talk about how freakish the weather has been here, and then suddenly get quite if anyone says “climate” instead of “weather” because it’s oil country and they still want to be on the denier train. Man, humanity is depressing sometimes.
The flip side is that the traditional breadbasket areas in the center-west of this strip are basically turning into desert.
I feel bad for them. They’ve got a shit lot in that they know they’re causing damage and they could stem that tide, but in doing so would have to give up what they know and have poured their lives into so far.
Not everyone’s ready to sacrifice their comfort or livelihoods for others and jump when there’s no guarantee they’ll be caught by the social safety net.
There will always be someone desperate and ready to deny the truth of their surroundings to fill the gap left, though.
That’s big of you. I can sympathise with someone who’s doing bad things, but when they’re intellectually dishonest about it as well I start feeling like glassing everything and letting life start over.
It’s just so damn hopeless. If that’s the level we’re at the atrocities will never stop, and we’ll keep blaming the other guy for it.
It would probably be extremely swampy for a long time. All that time it would release a tremendous amount of methane.
Sounds to me like a great energy opportunity, natural gas is totally green energy right? /s
Just put a great big garbage bag over the country and start sucking.
I mean, it’s already swampy. Canada has the band of current habitability shown, followed by muskeg (frozen swamp) and boreal forest for most of it’s area, followed by a strip of tundra along the coast (and continuing into all those giant uninhabited islands). Swamps are actually carbon fixers, though; it’s the process of a swamp drying out and the exposed plant matter rotting that’s the problem.
The tundra bit has permafrost that will thaw and rot into pretty pure methane, which is bad, but that’s in line to become new boreal forest next rather than new farmland.
Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.
Just outline the GTA and call it a day.
And the Vancouver mainland. And Montreal I guess.
Fuck Calgary though
I just heard a million echoes of “tabernacle” floating through the air.
There are 4 variations on the word but none end in -le.
https://quebeccity101.com/tabarnak-tabarnac-tabernak-or-tabernac/
… And only the first one’s the right one. #dieOnThisHill
Lmao that is the original spelling of the word. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/tabernacle/76296
They “reappropriated”, and re-wrote, a ton of french words. As is their right, because all words are made up anyway
As was explained in the link I provided.
“Tabarnak” (or its variants) is a Quebecois French swear word. In essence, it’s a profanity that derives its power from its connection to the Catholic Church. The word is derived from “tabernacle,” which in the Catholic faith is the sacred vessel that contains the consecrated host, representing the body of Christ. In Quebec, where Catholicism once held significant sway over society, the word “Tabarnak” has evolved into a potent exclamation, used to express a range of emotions, from anger and frustration to astonishment and awe.
I’m well aware thanks.
Quebec =/=Utah.
They’re not Canadian. They’re Quebecois, remember?
Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.
According to whose geography?
? It’s just a fact. The urban agglomeration commonly known as Vancouver (any of them) is not on the large, west-coast island known as Vancouver island.
I suspect you’re trolling.
I am. It is a post about truncate Canada geography after all.
However, being myself not versed in north-american geography, I’ve only learned today that there was such a thing as a Vancouver island.Ah, okay, sorry. It’s the one on the west end of this map. The city of 3 million called Vancouver is just across the channel on the mainland. The same English navy captain charted them both, which is where the name comes from.
The places I’ve heard of on the island are Victoria, Tofino and Nanaimo, but those aren’t very large centers, and if you include them then you have to include all the prairie cities as well. The rest is covered in mountains, temperate rainforest and retired British expats.
Well he landed there. But he’s not there now, not for a while. Nor the town: that’s on the mainland (aka the Big Island with Moncton and New Denver on it) .
Fun fact: there’s a Victoria Island but Victoria isn’t there either, the person nor the town.
The real anarchy would be to make Canadians live anywhere BUT what’s on the map
I’m a Canadian and I would have to drive ~8 hours to end up on that map.
IIRC one of the 19th century presidents basically campaigned on that, at least as far as the western side was concerned.
54/40 or fight!
I am sure some US hardliners see the map and wonder how is this country still independent.
These positions are not defensible from military perspective.
You want to know why Canada still exists despite having a fraction of the manpower or military of the United States?
It’s because the United States likes Canada. We think they’re fun to have around.
Do you guys actually think about us that much?
That’s an abstract question to try to answer; it’s not like we sit around and ponder about y’all for hours on end but someone says “This is my friend Bill from Canada” and you just think “Oh cool.”
On a societal level, we share the world’s longest international border, we’re massive trade partners, like, most of the Northwestern hemisphere’s best comedians come from Canada…we like Canada, we think they’re fun to have around.
Yeah, that’s my impression too. It’s more like you never sat down and thought about annexing us to start with; at least this side of WWII. We’re pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there’s no reason to.
Hopefully you know that “your country only exists at my pleasure” is not a compliment. I read this as a deliberate jab at first, but now I’m not so sure.
We’re pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there’s no reason to.
I think I’d go farther and say you’re pretty good friends; we have plenty of projects going together, we’ve got a giant waterfall we do a pretty good job sharing, etc.
Hopefully you know that “your country only exists at my pleasure” is not a compliment.
Wasn’t really designed to be; it’s more meant to chastise other imperial superpowers throughout history. If you went back through history and took the dominant superpower of any given era and plunked their leadership down in 1950’s Washington DC, how many of them form close economic ties and a mutual defense pact, and how many of them march on Ottawa?
If I read our treaties correctly, the official attitude of the United States is more like “Canada shall cease to exist over our dead bodies.”
It’s a bit of an unfair comparison. WWII had just ended and the world was adjusting to the invention of nuclear weapons. The British stopped invading places too, and that was their whole thing. Also, don’t forget, before WWII you did try to annex us.
To date you’ve chosen to sphere us instead, but it’s not because you’re all just nice guys.
C’mon, it even looks like a rifle
Who would be insane enough to inside a country, that already looks like a weapon?Careful how you phrase that, I heard a militia of collectors is forming to capture the biggest depiction of a gun in the world
The War of 1812 disagrees.
Touche but US capabilities are now that of a global empire, all of Canada is within few hundred mile from US border and its core literally cuts into the US while power disparity is wider than Ukraine/Russia.
Nobody who knows much seriously thinks we’d win a conventional war. We could slap together nukes pretty quickly, but we’d probably rather just get annexed. Our defences are all diplomatic.
That took place entirely in the Great Lakes area. The other bit was still very, very Native.
Also, we like to take credit for that, but that was basically the British Empire fighting for one of it’s colonies, and IIRC most of the British soldiers involved were not from here.
No, we’re going back to the North Atlantic triangle days if the US goes funny like it appears to be.
Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago
dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.
until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.
Yeah, I’m not worried about imminent invasion either. A trade war will already basically cause chaos, though, and it could escalate from there. Hopefully the government is up to the task.
It’s fucking cold any further up there though.
Enh, it’s not so bad
Signed,
Further up there
How much further up there are you?
Right in line with moscow, latitude-wise
Fort Mac?
Close enough :)
Just give it a few years.
Winnipeg here … we were doing fine until this last Sunday when we got a shit ton of snow and last night it was -42C (almost the same in F) with the wind chill.
But summer and fall were both longer and warmer than usual. Forecasters up here are having some difficulty with predicting anything more than a day or two in advance.
Excellent. I’m cut out from there so I can make my own country.
Native Tribes in Canada: “Hey can you give back the rest then?”
Canada: “Lol”
Canada : “holding it for the Clovis people”
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed BC’s cute lil wiener till now.
Whitespace pride! (Okay, only by a bit in my case. I wonder if we have any Yellowknifers)
Still in the provinces, but technically northern Canada here! There’s like at least 2 or 3 other people living up here!
Wow, maybe even 3! /s
Also the whole East Coast
I’m just happy the line on the west is so thick and dark. I’m not used to this kind of representation for the Island and I’m loving the token charity there.
Oh shit, Newfoundland left again and took NS, PEI and maybe NB with them. I didn’t even notice.
Canada looks like a shit gun.
I was thinking a gun from warframe
Do you hear that, Randy? The Americans cocked the shit gun
It’s Legendary though and will cost you $1867 to unlock.
Canada is the north side of the st. Lawrence river, everything else is just that area’s backyard
