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Speculation turns to exploitation as resource economies extend their reach northward. 

DRAG ME
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Soil quality and biodiversity are devastated by industrial agriculture. Labour shortages from recurring pandemics accelerate investment in machine production. Monolithic hydroelectric infrastructures fracture delicate ecological networks. Pipelines carve physical and social wounds across cultural landscapes. Global food shortages and shifting climates pressure newly viable northern latitudes into the production of high-yield monocrops. Oil prices fail to rebound in markets shocked by global crisis. Relics of the oil and gas industry litter northern landscapes, left to seep and rust. Capital seeks new avenues of exploitation. Receding boreal forests, disease, clearcutting, and fire suppression interrupt healthy regenerative growth patterns.