TORONTO – If the company collapses, the researchers suggest northern Canada may be “habitable” and could serve as a lifeboat, but other countries are better suited to survive.
Researchers have found that the Earth is in a “perilous state” due to rapid population growth and an energy-consuming society that has altered the Earth’s system and the biosphere. They say the collapse of society could occur in various forms, including economic collapse, worsening climate catastrophe, a pandemic worse than COVID-19, or some other mass extinction event, which , according to the researchers, is already underway.
The aim of the study, published in the journal Sustainability on July 21, was to create a shortlist of nations that could take in survivors in the event of a society collapse, where civilization could begin anew. The researchers assessed the land, the quantity available and its quality, the ease or difficulty of getting to the country, the renewable resources available, the climate and agriculture, to determine where it would be best to survive in the end. of the world.
Sparsely populated islands, especially those with distinct seasonal changes, performed best, with New Zealand at the top of the list. Iceland, UK, Australia (especially Tasmania) and Ireland were the rest of the shortlist where the company would be best to restart after a collapse.
Northern Canada, although not on the shortlist, could serve as a “lifeboat” if society collapses due to climate change and extreme temperatures, but survival would depend on maintaining the environment. agriculture and renewable energy sources to keep people alive.
The researchers showed that the shortlisted countries had strong sources of renewable energy, were in temperate climates, and had plenty of farmland and room for growth. In the case of Iceland, where land suitable for breeding is not abundant, this disadvantage is offset by fishing and the island’s wealth of renewable resources, whose geothermal resources are already widely developed.
While this may give Canadians living in northern regions a chance to breathe a sigh of relief, there are still zombie fires to contend with as climate change warms the north and shortens winters.
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