The European Union found light in the global climate change by saying that "the arctic offers new energy and fishing resources as a result of global warming and new technology and melting ice also presented new navigation possibilities such as a short route to the Pacific Ocean" because of the rapid recession of sea ice, snow cover and permafrost were helping to accelerate global warming and the loss from the Greenland ice sheet would bring a swift rise in sea levels. The new European Union strategy, which will be debated by European Union governments in coming months, foreshadows a stepped up role by European Union officials in the eight-country Arctic Council as well as part of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention which is trying to settle claims over the Arctic. In doing so the European Union will able to have a greater say over the Arctic's future. But, a united Nations panel is supposed to decide on control of the arctic by 2020 which still gives us some time.
Yes it is nice to find something good in a horrible problem, but seriously, exploiting the environment again... isn't that what got us here in the first place. Some say well we don't have any control of the change so might as well taken advantage of what has happened; but can you really take a disaster area and harm it even more. Everyone's momma always says " learn from your mistakes" you think governments would take that into note, but hopefully we will see a good outcome.
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week47/Friday/112105.htm
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I think its important that the goverment learns from its previous mistakes that way the enivironment can get better.
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