AHC: Keep Canada from being dominated by the US and/or the UK, pop-culture wise.

So far, I've only read the first page, so...

I say, go commie, and, go militant.

Look at North Korea. Totally "distinct" culture, and, a starring role on world stage disproportionate to size.

Yes. And then the anti-Canadian version of Red Dawn will be slightly less impossible. :rolleyes:
 
To try to do so between 1/1/1900 and now will be extraordinarily challenging, it doesn't seem very plausible... short of it occuring because of extraordinarily disaster befalling the US and/or UK.

If you want to move your thread to Future history, though, who knows ;) The rapidly-worsening climate warming will ultimately be most beneficial to Canada and Russia, all things considered, and I assume the population growth will ultimately be pretty crazy as a result. Canada is more open to immigration and better tooled to deal with it than Russia and definitely has room to grow north, so its not a total stretch to believe that within a century, it could experience a boom reminiscent of the conquest of the west for the US, if a bit more chilly, while the US suffers from catastrophic natural disasters and desertification.
 
To try to do so between 1/1/1900 and now will be extraordinarily challenging, it doesn't seem very plausible... short of it occuring because of extraordinarily disaster befalling the US and/or UK.

If you want to move your thread to Future history, though, who knows ;) The rapidly-worsening climate warming will ultimately be most beneficial to Canada and Russia, all things considered, and I assume the population growth will ultimately be pretty crazy as a result. Canada is more open to immigration and better tooled to deal with it than Russia and definitely has room to grow north, so its not a total stretch to believe that within a century, it could experience a boom reminiscent of the conquest of the west for the US, if a bit more chilly, while the US suffers from catastrophic natural disasters and desertification.

However the soil will remain impossible to work with for the forseable future.
 
However the soil will remain impossible to work with for the forseable future.

For some purposes, yes in most places, though the warming already does have limited agricultural benefits for some provinces and also in Greenland. You dont need to be able to harvest maize at the north pole to make gains; simply extending agricultural activities once only possible near the St-Lawrence or the US border a bit further north because of a longer season is already something. And of course, crops aren't everything. The territories have a wealth of natural resources that'll open up once its feasible to build communities able to extract them profitably. Compared to the hellish floods and droughts that climate change means for the rest of the world, Russia, Canada and Scandinavia (and Alaska) get off generally pretty well, though flooding will cause issues everywhere.

Plus, the latest findings are that we've massively underestimated how much carbon is trapped in the northern ices, and that's going to speed things up once it gets released.
 
For some purposes, yes in most places, though the warming already does have limited agricultural benefits for some provinces and also in Greenland. You dont need to be able to harvest maize at the north pole to make gains; simply extending agricultural activities once only possible near the St-Lawrence or the US border a bit further north because of a longer season is already something. And of course, crops aren't everything. The territories have a wealth of natural resources that'll open up once its feasible to build communities able to extract them profitably. Compared to the hellish floods and droughts that climate change means for the rest of the world, Russia, Canada and Scandinavia (and Alaska) get off generally pretty well, though flooding will cause issues everywhere.

Plus, the latest findings are that we've massively underestimated how much carbon is trapped in the northern ices, and that's going to speed things up once it gets released.

Yeah, because the permafrost melting and turning everything into swampy bogs totally makes it inviting. It's going to be terrible, and filled with mosquitos. There'll be a bit of growth, but if we have more than a 50% increase in production attributable to climate change I would be amazed (and we'll be exporting much less because we'll have less import options, so it likely won't help support that many more people).
 
To try to do so between 1/1/1900 and now will be extraordinarily challenging, it doesn't seem very plausible... short of it occuring because of extraordinarily disaster befalling the US and/or UK.

It can be done in a plausible way, if you know your Canadian history well enough. Like in my case, where I'm using a cinema fire as the POD. Of course, most of the effects will be post-WW2, and one of the butterflies could be done independently of my POD (that is, in fact, the Marconi-EMI system), but it can be done.
 
Yeah, because the permafrost melting and turning everything into swampy bogs totally makes it inviting. It's going to be terrible, and filled with mosquitos. There'll be a bit of growth, but if we have more than a 50% increase in production attributable to climate change I would be amazed (and we'll be exporting much less because we'll have less import options, so it likely won't help support that many more people).

Youre probably right, I shouldn't be too optimistic about the upsides of this disaster anyhow. But still, reading your post, my first thought was "Dude, we're melting the ice caps. We can drain a swamp." :D Never underestimate humanity's ability to shatter it's environment to it's short-sighted benefit.
 
Dan1988 said:
We shall see - could they benefit from World War II in this case?
Could be. It really does depend on when they get started on their own act, & IDK when it was OTL. I don't get the sense they were ever approaching, say, Bud & Lou until postwar; that might change, with more exposure sooner TTL.
 
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