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minus-squareATDA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 days agoI mean I can’t speak for other nations but who’s looking in from the outside and thinking, “yeah mate Id like a piece of that!” past Russia?
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-22 days ago90% of the landmass is under ice, so people want the water, and they’re getting chubs thinking there might be deposits of rare earth minerals as there are in the Northern Territories of Canada.
minus-squareBonifratz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoIsn’t this also mostly about shipping routed which are expected to open up more and more due to climate change?
I mean I can’t speak for other nations but who’s looking in from the outside and thinking, “yeah mate Id like a piece of that!” past Russia?
90% of the landmass is under ice, so people want the water, and they’re getting chubs thinking there might be deposits of rare earth minerals as there are in the Northern Territories of Canada.
Isn’t this also mostly about shipping routed which are expected to open up more and more due to climate change?
Perhaps, China?