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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPompeo Cheers Shrinking Sea Ice 4 Clearing Trade Routes: The Arctic Is At The Forefront Of Abundance
The Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance, Pompeo said in remarks in Rovaniemi, Finland. It houses 13 percent of the worlds undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources, fisheries galore.
Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade, he continued. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.
Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade, he continued. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.
[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/05/pompeo-cheers-shrinking-sea-ice-for-clearing-trade-routes-the-arctic-is-at-the-forefront-of-abundance/|
Fucking hell. The stupid. IT BURNS!
He can't be serious, right?
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Pompeo Cheers Shrinking Sea Ice 4 Clearing Trade Routes: The Arctic Is At The Forefront Of Abundance (Original Post)
Soph0571
May 2019
OP
He is definitely serious. These folks (ignorant money is everything people) are deadly
walkingman
May 2019
#1
walkingman
(7,583 posts)1. He is definitely serious. These folks (ignorant money is everything people) are deadly
serious. They could give two squats about the natural world or anything else but their personal self-aggrandizement.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)2. self-centered and selfish to the extreme
The irony is that these folks believe their money will save their children from the disaster they are staging. It won't.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)3. He's parroting Putin
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)9. This 1000 percent
Golden Raisin
(4,605 posts)4. Nothing but Greed and Mammon
as the Earth spirals into climactic terminal decline.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)5. The movue Water World cones to mind
sakabatou
(42,138 posts)6. Profits over planet again
hunter
(38,303 posts)7. And what will they do about all the global warming refugees?
Many of them will be U.S. citizens.
Aristus
(66,294 posts)8. What year is this? 1600? "Huzzah, Almighty God in His mercy has seen fit to grant us
out of His majesterial abundance, the Northwest Passage! Praise His name! Now shall we take the name of her benevolent Majesty Good Queen Bess as far as the Antipodes!
No, you hamhock! This is a bad thing!