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Despite the generally vociferous and melodramatic campaign against all male things and wearers of the horrendous fabric pattern known counter-phonetically as "plaid," I feel I must make a substantial plug here for my brother's wine geography professor, who has dubbed himself "The Plaid Avenger." He is a geopolitical enthusiast with a penchant for fine martinis and has recently created a comic, which you can learn about at this site.
This comic expertly and extensively expounds upon the exacerbating excitement over an extraordinary "break-through" in the Earth's northern hemisphere. The political repercussions of the geographical repercussions of global warming will be explosive as passages begin to open up and oil mining sites to be exposed, giving reasons for Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Greenland (Denmark), RUSSIA, and d**k Cheney (USA) to become extremely interested in the Arctic Ocean. I am inadequate to fully explain all of the political squabbling, but the important things are these:
1) All indigenous life forms in the Arctic are screwed unless people can unite to make an effort on their behalves. By indigenous life forms, I mean plants, animals, and human beings who have perpetuated themselves perfectly happily for centuries and kept a beautiful section of the world mostly pure. Let's not have another case of the Aztecs, shall we?
2) Military bases have already sprung up on Arctic coastlines, namely in Canada and Russia. Russia has been making military displays. Russia has stations aircraft and submarines off their coast. Russia has sent two submarines and planted flags on the Arctic floor. China is considering throwing its money in the ring because all of that ocean will be pretty much free game.
3) Economies everywhere with proper claims to the area will surge. This is the greatest boon among the multitudinous atrocities that will certainly occur while the planet begins yet another world-war-that-isn't-technically-a-world-war-because-not-enough-countries-actually-declared-war-they-just-stationed-troops-and-told-them-to-shoot-at-people. At least we'll get out of this pan-continental economic crisis while we start importing polar bear meat.


Just some things to think about. I'll be posting this elsewhere and encourage you to do the same. Spread the word. The link on this journal has information on who to contact about these crises and make an effort to stem the flow towards an eruption of world-changing violence and disruption.