Clash of the climates High latitude countries brace for global change

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High latitude regions enjoy a relatively warmer climate and better geography options, and therefore can secure better chances to win this critical battle for food security and climate resilient habitats.

As climate instability does damage to our coastlines in all parts of the world, this will create new high-risk economic battleground. In the Northern Shift, the nations at high latitude, around or above the 45 degree latitude, i.e. Canada, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Greenland, and others are playing the role of shock absorbers for the rest of human being. As the world will become more and more unstable, people in the high latitude will aggressively prepare for the world in which the "battleground" turns into a line of defense. Its primary advantage is the impossibly difficult extermination and its contrary enormous resources.

Thawing permafrost and warmer temperatures easing with an extended growing season have made it possible to cultivate huge areas with complex agriculture. These nations are able now to store huge food supplies, with even the famous breadbaskets of the globe experiencing crippling drought.

In parallel, the geopolitical map is being redrawn by the changing state of the Arctic geography. Consequently, entire nations of the Arctic Circle are scaling their deep-water ports, strengthening their navy and modernizing their transport corridors to meet the expected reshapes of international shipping and resource extraction services.

The biggest challenge is to accommodate the rising number of people that will migrate to the same cold places, and with that many of us will need robust urban infrastructure, a renewable energy boom, and honest limits to our openness to some forms of asylum. If we meet these challenges, my hope is that place will continue to be a sanctuary to spend our later years in.

✍️Ujala

Scholar from University of Delhi, INDIA