The Arctic ice is melting at a record pace. You can read about it in a front page article in today’s New York Times. And guess what the nations who border the Arctic are concerned about.
What can we do to mitigate global warming? What policies can we adopt to slow the melting? What about the effects on the rest of the globe?
Wrong.
What they are concerned about is tapping into the oil and other minerals that are newly exposed by the melting ice. Even China, which has no claim to the Arctic, is focusing on the Arctic in its foreign policy.
This is like badly written science fiction, where people are fighting each other for advantage while the world has a few days left. Unfortunately, it is not science fiction.
Sad to hear... human have one fatal flaw we think we need to grow continuously or grow until death. But in many cases, the growth is what caused the death.
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