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The important thing isn't the crossing, it's not needing to be accompanied by an icebreaker. The oil tanker SS Manhattan [1] made the trip in 1969, but unassis

• enupten 13y ago
  Yes, and that is likely going to mean that, the Arctic is never going to freeze again (if this takes off). Goodbye, Polar bears, we like you, but we don't think your survival is in our "national interests". Meh.
  • enupten 13y ago
    The sad thing is that, apart from whatever feedbacks are there in the environement, there are far to many economic feedbacks pushing our civilization towards greater environmental destruction. Do you think there will such a furore over Canadian tar sands, when the oil from the middle east comes to a trickle ? When the fertilizer plants stop, plastics manufacturing ends, and transporting coal becomes harder ? Should governments care for the Earth or its subjects ? I'm sorry for being so dystopian, but I don't think Science has the ability to bear the burden of, what will be, 10 billion people. This will happen sometime, I just wish I'm not alive to see the day; climate change makes it much worse.
  • kamjam 13y ago
    This is the first thing that crossed my mind when I even read the title. This is a sad thing and I don't think it is a cause for celebration. Next up, oil platforms in the Arctic.
    • VladRussian2 13y ago
      >Next up, oil platforms in the Arctic. on that side. Other side is already full steam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0VgaMUm_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0VgaMUm_c
      • kamjam 13y ago
        Sad times :(