Russia stands to BENEFIT from climate change. So DT's climate change denial,
and that of other Republicans, must be understood in that context.
The profiteers don't care about fighting climate change -- they welcome it.
https://nexusmedianews.com/putin-is-turning-russia-into-an-agricultural-powerhouse-climate-change-could-help-ec263cb99a6e#.mxmf0cfwx
Climate change will create winners and losers — or rather, mostly losers, and a few winners. Impoverished equatorial countries face the harshest impacts. Wealthy Western nations will cope better. Russia may fare the best of all, largely as an accident of geography.
This is good new for Vladimir Putin. He wants Russia to become an agricultural powerhouse. Climate change could help.
Putin is upping crop production in an effort to become, as he said, “the world’s largest supplier of healthy, ecologically clean and high-quality food.” This year, Russia surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest exporter of wheat. Russian farming is booming. Plutocrats are snatching up arable land. In the years ahead, global warming could bolster Russian agricultural supremacy.
Vladimir Putin previously said that “an increase of two or three degrees wouldn’t be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.” He’s at least partly right. While climate change threatens to stunt wheat production in the United States, in Russia it’s a different story.
Rising temperatures will thaw Russia’s icy reaches. Melting permafrost will damage infrastructure and release noxious methane gas, but it will also expand arable land. A 2011 study found global warming could add more than 400,000 square miles of potential farmland, an area more than twice the size of California. That fact has investors looking to Siberia with dollar signs in their eyes.
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