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Canada to be less affected by climate change than most nations (yay?)

Via Calgary SunVia IMF

Yikes, well this is a weird article to write. According to a recent report put out by Moody’s Analytics says that the world will have ‘winners and losers’ when it comes to climate change, and North America (and Canada) is part of the former group. Go us, we guess?

The main takeaway is that the earth is too far gone to prevent the global temperature rising by 1 degree Celsius. As a result, we can expect rising sea levels, health effects, productivity going down, crop yields falling… the whole shebang. But as far as Canada is concerned, climate change might not be *thaaaat* big of a deal.

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Saudi Arabia is supposed to get slammed in the next few decades, as an already incredibly hot, emerging country.

Meanwhile, the effects of climate change on Canada and the USA’s economy are supposed to be negligible. Of course, we can still expect more extreme weather patterns, the problems that come with rising sea levels… you know, the bad stuff.

You can check out the full report here.