Darrel, A lot of people don't realize what this really means: As trans-arctic shipping lanes open so will military activity in the polar region. With disputed claims over oil and mineral rights - the Arctic could fast become a very tense region. As to the ice bear - I think the polar bears will adapt to change I would suggest a polar bear refuge be established on St Lawerence Island and the North Slope to insure habitat for the magnificant creatures.
There will be pushing and shoving, maybe some boat bumping, but no hostitilities. Oil drilling companies not nations have to do the work to develope these resources, they are not going to be able to do much except in the brief summer months and none of the 5 nations can profit if there is hostilities, mostly it will be posturing and court fights.
On what evidence do you think the polar bear can survive? Without walrus, without seals he's done, he relies on ice to hunt from, he cannot catch these things in the water, he has t catch them when they surface at air holes. The entire eskimo way of life surrounding the arctic, from Norway, to Russia, to Alaska and Canada, and Greenland, hundreds of thousands of villages live off the seals, whales, fish, this will change, their culture will collapse, imagine how much booze they can drink then, the artic circle will become the alcholoics circle.
Pushing back on the icebreaker. ......... Ice cover in the Polar Bears home fell to a new low last summer, more ships are coming.
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteA lot of people don't realize what this really means: As trans-arctic shipping lanes open so will military activity in the polar region. With
disputed claims over oil and mineral rights - the Arctic could fast become a very tense region.
As to the ice bear - I think the polar bears will adapt to change I would suggest a polar bear refuge be established on St Lawerence Island and the North Slope to insure habitat for the magnificant creatures.
Ron
There will be pushing and shoving, maybe some boat bumping, but no hostitilities. Oil drilling companies not nations have to do the work to develope these resources, they are not going to be able to do much except in the brief summer months and none of the 5 nations can profit if there is hostilities, mostly it will be posturing and court fights.
ReplyDeleteOn what evidence do you think the polar bear can survive? Without walrus, without seals he's done, he relies on ice to hunt from, he cannot catch these things in the water, he has t catch them when they surface at air holes. The entire eskimo way of life surrounding the arctic, from Norway, to Russia, to Alaska and Canada, and Greenland, hundreds of thousands of villages live off the seals, whales, fish, this will change, their culture will collapse, imagine how much booze they can drink then, the artic circle will become the alcholoics circle.