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Absolutely, they are already experiencing flooding, fires, and permafrost melting is destroying tons of infrastructure. It seems like they'll fare better than many countries but nobody is a "winner" here.
Short-term profits are like a drug. Most fucks who pump natural resources today don't plan anything in the current turbulent political climate and believe they and their kids in EU or elsewhere would pay out all the problems with their current superprofits.