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Dr. Strangeice - or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Global Warming Bomb
So I've been wondering how the Corporate Media would explain away the melting of the Arctic. Hard to add the obligatory “but of course, this event can’t be directly attributed to Global Warming” disclaimer to this story. Well, I'm getting my answer:
Dr. Strangelove - or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Global Warming Bomb
Why we should look to the Arctic
(CNN) -- Most Americans think of the Arctic as an icy, distant place; beautiful, remote and teeming with wildlife, but unrelated to their daily lives. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This summer, big doings on America's northern doorstep will have enormous consequences to the economic, strategic and environmental future of the nation. Yet we are unprepared for the challenges and opportunities.
What happens in the Arctic as ice melts there could soon cheapen the cost of the gas you buy and products you purchase from Asia. It could help make the nation more energy independent. It could draw our leaders into a conflict over undersea territory. It is already challenging Washington to protect millions of square miles filled with some of the most magnificent wildlife on Earth, and native people whose culture and way of life is at risk as a squall line of development sweeps across the once inaccessible top of the planet.
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Their concerns are not just local ones but should engage every American. If you care about the environment, if you care about gas prices, if you care about where our soldiers and navy may serve next, if you want the U.S. to remain strong and dominant in the world, look to the north this summer.
Look to the Arctic. That's where much of our common future is about to play out.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/opinion/reiss-arctic-drilling/index.html?iref=allsearch
(CNN) -- Most Americans think of the Arctic as an icy, distant place; beautiful, remote and teeming with wildlife, but unrelated to their daily lives. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This summer, big doings on America's northern doorstep will have enormous consequences to the economic, strategic and environmental future of the nation. Yet we are unprepared for the challenges and opportunities.
What happens in the Arctic as ice melts there could soon cheapen the cost of the gas you buy and products you purchase from Asia. It could help make the nation more energy independent. It could draw our leaders into a conflict over undersea territory. It is already challenging Washington to protect millions of square miles filled with some of the most magnificent wildlife on Earth, and native people whose culture and way of life is at risk as a squall line of development sweeps across the once inaccessible top of the planet.
....
Their concerns are not just local ones but should engage every American. If you care about the environment, if you care about gas prices, if you care about where our soldiers and navy may serve next, if you want the U.S. to remain strong and dominant in the world, look to the north this summer.
Look to the Arctic. That's where much of our common future is about to play out.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/opinion/reiss-arctic-drilling/index.html?iref=allsearch
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..but I doubt the person you asked will answer that question...
and waaaay more expensive. Too bad, so sad for all those people in the world without enough Monsantobux...
The article in the OP so doesn't get it. 
There aren't enough 
in the world to express just how much "way to miss the whole point you fucking dumb-ass" there is in that article...
