• Godric@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Jokes aside, buy shit in Anchorage, it’s gonna be a major port once the ice caps melt and the Northwest Passage becomes reality instead of a fantastic Candian folk tune!

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      I don’t understand this attitude that people seem to have which is that climate change will just be this thing that we ignore and will bring about new opportunities. Man it’s going to kill us all. No one’s gonna be opening new shipping lanes because all of the cities you would previously have exported to will now be underwater.

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        3 hours ago

        I don’t understand this attitude that people seem to have which is that climate change will just be this thing that we ignore and will bring about new opportunities.

        Some Russians are actually buying that idea they would corner most of world trade, unfortunately, at the expense of wildlife and Inuits and other indigenous tribes around the Arctic who do subsistence hunting.