• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    With the way climate change is going, we may soon have access to the virgin lands up north. RIP, but also yay, but also RIP…

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    7 months ago

    I thought this was mostly a Mercator projection joke with a tiny amount of weather joke, but that doesn’t seem to be the consensus.

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    7 months ago

    The worst part is that there really is a lot of habitable land but it would require employers to make a big push for remote jobs (wink wink federal and provincial governments)

    Sure winter is colder up north but even 50km North of the major city centers the land is empty…

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      7 months ago

      Or the government could just build trains out to there.

      I saw a picture of a train station in China that had been built in the middle of nowhere. Stairs from the subway leading up onto a grassy field. The Americans all laughed at China for it. Then I saw a picture of that same train station five years later. It was in the middle of a metropolis. China has so much housing that there are entire cities sitting empty. Now, if a country with two billion people can manage that, Canada has no excuse.