Riches await as Earth’s icy north melts

There might be a war, there might not be. With the global warming affecting the Arctic, many countries race to the north to take claims on oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes. They are waiting for the ice in the north to melt and give them access to the resoursces that have been hidden in the frozen waters. There has been a survey estimating that the Arctic has 25 percent of the world’s oil and gas that hasn’t been discovered yet, while there have been reports about the potential of minerals in a part of the Arctic sector reaching $2 trillion. These are more than enough reasons to bring a war to the Arctic to decide the countries ownership in the north forgetting there are people who have been living there for years.


Main Ideas:

- Global warming speeds the ice melting in the Arctic while some countries try to take advantage of this fact.
- The discovery of resources in the Arctic is worth trillions of dollars.
- Countries race to claim ownership of the frozen seas in the north.

Comments:

- I think in time if these countries don’t get to a solution for these claims about owning parts of the Arctic they will make global warming's effects even worse in the Arctic by starting wars over it.