• Sundial@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.

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          ? 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.

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            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.

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              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.

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          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.

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            7 days ago

            Well he landed there.

            Was Vancouver a person? I’m learning a lot about Canada in this post about not knowing Canada (^_^)

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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)

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      8 days ago

      It would probably be extremely swampy for a long time. All that time it would release a tremendous amount of methane.

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        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.

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      We’ve been choked by forest fire smoke every summer for a few years now. I hear some of the boreal forest that burned down is coming back as plains. Also, interestingly, we never stopped clearing new farmland around the high 50’s of latitude.

      It’s really noticeable already as far north as I am. People will talk about how freakish the weather has been here, and then suddenly get quiet 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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    Canada is the north side of the st. Lawrence river, everything else is just that area’s backyard