What is the most future-proof country?
What is the most future-proof country?
Like in terms of climate change, political climate, wars, etc. 
It's China
Iceland may lose some surface area due to rising seas, but warmer climates will probably create more farmland on the rich volcanic soil. They can probably maintain a modest quality of life for a very long time cut off from the rest of the world like Cuba, but without the increasing number and severity of tropical storms every year
The gulf stream collapsing means that anything above the 30th parallel will be covered in meters of ice in a matter of years, iceland will be one of the first to fall to it.
this is complete bs by the way it's not nearly as simple as the Gulf Stream being the only factor keeping northern europe more temperate, it probably won't collapse in "a matter of years" so much as a matter of decades or centuries, and the cooling effect that has will likely be offset by other factors such as an ice-free Arctic no longer acting to limit heating of the northern oceans
Omgv yes please i want to freeze to death instead of sweat
i don't think anyone has a good idea what will actually happen from that, it seems very silly to suggest it'd be worse than climes on similar latitude without a gulf stream. Russian east & Canada are cold but they aren't unlivable---and they're becoming warmer like everywhere
iceland's where the billionaires who are too racist for new zealand will build their bunkers, it's fucked
be cool if they build those bunkers over a rising mantle plume
wait till they see my People's Welding Torch
Iceland is full of snowy barbarians that know no civilization, hope you like running around in a loin cloth and eating stinky fish. oh and there's no shade on account that the beggards cut down all their trees, not even for anything cool just lots of boats to go get more stinky fish
Frozen snow and ice melting has actually caused Iceland to rise a bit as an island as the weight on it decreases
So it's actually gaining land
Thinking about things out of your control all the time is going to make you stressful You are not a decision maker or a seer you can't know or control the future
Text a friend to grab a drink or watch a movie is much more useful than thinking about this thing
Yeah that's probably right and I do try to not think too much about these things😵💫, but I do hope to leave my home country some day, so I need a target country to work towards in the meantime😅
I am in the same boat I think us is best because of simply how big it is
My bet is on DPRK.
Aren't all the billionaires moving to Aotearoa/NZ?
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China without a single microsecond of hesitation
I will convert myself into a virus and then upload myself to collective humanity. After humanity has advanced enough to re-materialize me from my distributed form I will have transferred myself into our glorious future of luxury gay space communism.
Edit: This reminds me of Pham Nuwen's swarm form in the Zones of Thought trilogy.
Popular Korea is eternal. Sorry China stans
The ones that have practiced Autarky for decades. They won't have luxury, but they will weather the storm.
no such countries
What do you mean? DPRK, Cuba, Rojava, Sentinel Island, and so forth. Pockets where people rely majorly on domestic production, even if they have trade with other countries, will be better off than countries that focus on foreign trade and production.
There are no perfectly isolated countries, but the ones that are more self-reliant will survive better.
China has existed for 10,000 years so I'll go with that.
Canada could win climate change.
Until the US inevitably annexes it :(
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I can't tell if you are serious. The country is so far up north and more than two thirds of the people live close to the US border.
the principality of sealand
Probably Russia
Serbia
China.
No hordes of hogs just itching to commit any hate crime, the environment isn’t put up for a vote and even if it was, I have full faith China would pick the environment instead of pollution to ‘own the libs’. Five year plans, housing is housing and not an investment, the list goes on.
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Iran? Idk.
