Arctic Build-up is Chilling
In mid-July, The Bench Jockeys wrote about the Northern countries “no-limits” race for the Arctic’s prize resources as climate-induced accessibility to the polar ice cap takes shape. That provocative piece was entitled, “The Artic Melt Heats Tensions.” Click here to read the article: http://thebenchjockeys.com/2011/07/14/arctic-melt-heats-tensions/
More than two months after we published our findings, The Huffington Post is now starting to report on the growing military build-up in Russia, Canada and Norway that the Bench Jockeys told you was developing into a flashpoint. We may not be able to cover every newsworthy event on the planet, but we do strive to bring our readers valuable content about the issues that the mainstream media may assume the general population is too unsophisticated to grasp. If you are interested in why military conflict in the Arctic Circle is a stone-cold lock, read The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s North Future by Laurence Smith. I picked up that gem after researching the material for the piece on the Arctic Melt as I became more and more convinced that the Middle East is not the world’s only tinderbox. Folks, it may be cold in the Arctic Circle, but sparks are going to fly.
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Tags: arctic, canada, norway, russia