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Think China, India and Russia that still follow environmental laws dating back to the 1950’s.
When push comes to shove in land claims in the Arctic and mapping the ocean floor to establish who owns what, the world governments may have finally found something worth fighting over.
Tom Clancy, if you are lurking here please jump in anytime
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My respect for Tom Clancy just about evaporated once he started to do those "branded" novels written by other authors...
Russia is apparently best-placed to take advantage in any thawing of the Arctic ice. They're the only nation that currently possesses the gigantic
nuclear-powered ice-breakers necessary, whether it's to keep open shipping lanes or allow eventual access to Arctic-resources. (I can just about imagine the
furore if any other
western-nations decided to build nuclear-powered ice-breakers tomorrow...?!)
But I don't really comprehend why India or China even, should want to take the
serious steps to acquiring these until-now, unattainable resources?
After all, it's quite clear to me that over the last 500 years or so at least, it's
always been the
white men, who've waged the wars (amongst themselves) and decimated native populations in other places in order to control global economic resources. This
opportunistic and combative strategy, something I can only ascribe to genetics at this stage. It's why the white man, from a tiny European base 500 years ago, has managed to install its hegemony in places as far apart as Australasia, southern Africa and north / south America upto this day. Leaving aside the white man's most recent undertakings to regain control of the oil supply in the middle-east. And the bickering amongst themselves today over whether 1 section of white men - the Russians, should be allowed to now have the control and influence they undoubtedly have over certain European countries because they finally possess sufficient oil and gas resources in a nation surprisingly enlarged over the centuries...?!
Just because China (and maybe India) are today investing huge amounts of capital and some development aid in African nations to secure their raw material and energy demands for the future (something we in the west did "way back when" but we got used to friendly and corrupt dictators - the difference today being that these corrupt dictators are now being given a "market price" for their nations' resources ...?!), does not mean that China or India will tomorrow be building the ice-breakers and other technologies in order to steal "our" Arctic resources. Or maybe that's just how our politicians would like us to feel...a few hundred million western Europeans / north Americans / Russians / Chinese and Indians who lost their lives in some near-future nuclear-exchange would probably do wonders for the many countries' forth-coming pensions / ageing-population crises.
Be fore-warned! Little has stopped the white man's progression to world dominance up until now. Remember, in the past, that whole native populations were once decimated, not because of modern armaments or murderous intentions, but because the invaders brought with them various ailments that were hitherto unknown to the natives.
Cough cough...?!