The Geopolitics Of Global Warming: Russia, The North Pole And Peak Oil

The Coming Arctic Oil Rush Is Only One Way Global Climate Change Is Changing Global Power

So Russia planted a titanium flag in the sea floor at the North Pole. Its citizens celebrated, spurred on by propaganda on state-owned media. Canada scoffed at its Arctic neighbor


But the spectacle is only part of this story. The other part is dead serious.

Global warming is melting the Arctic, which is why Russia is suddenly interested in planting flags in a very public way. The effects of global warming are usually discussed as environmental problems (species being squeezed into extinction as they fail to adapt to unprecedented environmental change), human health problems (as new tropical diseases emerge, for instance, in sub-tropical and temperate zones) or economic problems (how would New York pay to build levies to wall off a higher sea with more frequent storms and intense storm surges?).

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