Victoria
Cummings
9/18/12
Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Artic
Treasures
Article by Elizabeth Rosenthal
Elizabeth
Rosenthal’s article “Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Artic Treasures” is about
how resourceful oils, gases and minerals are being discovered due to the rapid
pace of climate change and melting ice in Greenland. This occurrence is making
these resources more accessible. Because these resources are being noticed by
many nations around the world including China there is a concern for the United
Stated and its allies and their rights in this area. China is used its wealth
to gain access to the newly discovered resources by purchasing companies and
making contributions to the located governments of the Arctic territory.
These new
conditions will affect the nations of the Arctic Territory by creating new
opportunities with increased interest and investment from countries around the
world. This will affect the ability of the United States and western nations to
become more energy independent with access to minerals, oils and other natural
resources. Unfortunately the rapid climate change could also have negative
effects for all of us even though there are positive results discussed in this
article, however only time will tell.
Positively this could also create a joining of nations that are
currently divided with a common interest and purpose. Hopefully everyone will
benefit from the increased access to needed natural resources around the world
and also bring more attention to the need to deal with the issue with global
warming.
The article
was well written and expresses both concern and attention to an area of the
world that never had a lot of interest. Hopefully it will present less conflict
between the nations of the world and more of a joining to benefit from the
natural resources and increased accessibility to trade routes. There should
also be expanded focus on the causes and effects of global warming and how to
correct that growing concern for the earth.
I found this article very interesting. Because human beings are currently so dependent on non-renewable fuels I think this article is very interesting. What it brings to light is that our burning of fossil fuels, while it does damage our ozone and cause global warming, is revealing to us new resources. You mentioned in your article that the melting ice could have several negative effects. I think this could be improved by the addition of a small list of some of the possible negative effects. You could also discuss further how these newfound resources could untie the countries. Alternatively, it would be interesting if you offered a counter argument to Rosenthal's and discussed why these new resources could cause war over the precious land. Overall it was very interesting, and I think there are several points upon which you could expand if you wanted to.
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