60 thousand people with no friends or land borders in the north atlantic vs 30 million people with friendly(ish) neighbours and relatively porous borders on the equator. The US can depopulate Greenland entirely if they want to, which the pillaging companies see as insurance for them
I am very pleasantly surprised with the reactions to this, it's a testament to how badly the US's PR has gone in Canada. 'Fuck the US' is a good step one to anti-imperialism in Canada, and the best way for farmers to realize China isn't a big bad guy is by them getting paid from trade with China. Canola is a huge industry and basically only the US and China buy it, but at least Xi isn't going to threaten to invade when renegotiations come up
I think about the Romans a lot, but I think about Egypt and the Ottomans too. I just like Mediterranean history. I was clearly a member of the Sea People in a past life.
They would keep saying he's a gay puppet controlled by Putin and even as they were firing the nukes the libs would say 'he's doing this because Putin wants to kill Americans and Trump will do anything his lover, who he is gay with, says'
There are definitely major breaking points which really make things hard to predict what comes after, we won't revert to a priomordial ooze any time soon but they will make life on Earth dramatically different and worse by most mammals' standards for everyone still alive on it.
Over ~32 degrees C yields drop on all C4 pathway plants because they stop absorbing CO2. Wheat, sugar, and corn are C4 pathway plants, iirc ~8% of all plants on Earth use it. 32+ summers are expected already in most of the wheat belts around the world, this isn't even factoring in that many of those wheat belts are fed water (and therefore cooled as well as hydrated) by disappearing mountain glaciers like the Rockies and the Himalayas.
Desalination of the oceans will also dramatically alter the movement of the ocean which will alter the weather worldwide as well as killing many of the things living in it.
We can't predict the knock-on effects of even one species being wiped out, and a lot of species are going to be wiped out.
60 thousand people with no friends or land borders in the north atlantic vs 30 million people with friendly(ish) neighbours and relatively porous borders on the equator. The US can depopulate Greenland entirely if they want to, which the pillaging companies see as insurance for them