Should we really mine the Arctic?

Ice melting allowing access to more fossil fuels? What a terrible irony.

This reminds me of the movie "Don't look up" when instead of destroying the comet they let it get as close as possible to extract the minerals it contained

Lol, "Scientists from twenty countries - including Russia"...As we all know, Russia geographically has the access to around 50% of the Arctic Circle. So, your headline should be: "Scientist from Russia - including twenty countries"...

I like how Battlefiled 2042 kinda predicts the future, because they have a map called "Breakaway" and it's an oil rig on the ice in Antarctica. And the United States and Russia are fighting for it.

Further destroying our planet for private profits is the epithome of idiocy.

Would really love more videos on Arctic policy and its future. Very interesting

The best part is China saying it has a claim to the arctic..

Just to be clear, the arctic has not been untouched for millions of years. The Inuit people have been living there for atleast 8 thousand years.

I just hate how much greed and sadness and destruction of the earth people have done. There is no future.

Human greed is amazing. Doesn't matter how rich and comfortable majority of us are, we just want more!

Won't the Arctic melting provide catastrophic sea level rise?

My Father used to tell us -There are no Monsters under your Bed, They all work in Government !!🧐

Superb analysis and presentation! Touches on the key issues that face our planet and our civilization. Every thinking human must watch this!

i feel humans will never learn to do the right thing and help the planet

It infuriates me how greedy our leaders are

I wrote about this in my undergrad international relations class back in 2008. It’s only continued to trend towards conflict. As the circumstances were so different then, Chinas emerging role in this really expedites things towards a muddier situation ripe for conflict. Hopefully we can label these as zones of environmental stability and a huge need in the overall life of the planet.

DW strikes again with another mindblowing video. You guys have the best video editing team in the world!

Thank you DW. You are at the forefront of bringing awareness to issues that every human being needs to take note of.

There need to be protests against this, globally

"There's oil" There, I've saved you 14 minutes of your life

In Arctic Circle ,how World great power involved in resources and geopolitics - DW explained it very nicely.

It’s important to look forward while acting *right now*. Change has arrived in the Arctic, often times irreversible. In fact, big chunks of this ecosystem are very close to being broken forever. Cooperation needs to happen now, and we need to put the earth's health first.

Thank you for the video and brining more awareness to others. Makes me wonder about the many other motives of the Antarctica landmass and everyone staking claims down there too, as well as all the chemtrail spraying that seemed to have caused more warmer weather around the globe; that may have sped up the melting. Also the natural weakening of the magnetic field of the Earth and the speeding up and the speeding up and shifting of the poles; most likely brining about erratic weather patterns, jet stream fluctuations, volcanos and earthquakes too. Saw a video the other day from BBC about giant solar lenses in space to beam down microwaves from the Suns energy to earth for power, reminds me of the ancient stories of the large lenses or mirrors they used for power and war. Some videos below to expand awareness, regardless if you have any background on their subject matter or not; keep and open heart and open mind. May they ignite a knowing within you both personally for your own Being and for the betterment of the Planet and all life on it. Its a mix below of spiritual and of science as "One", as it has to be in order to be aligned and whole again. Love and Peace, Chris Short clip about Free Energy Tech kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipiPaquK2rnJpZc.html Part 1: Start at 8 min and 17 seconds, close eye and just listen with quiet and in your heart. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aaeom7pizJ-smnU.html Part 2: Click and close eyes again and keep open mind and heart. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9adksdmuteze6s.html Tesla, Great Pyramid and Free Energy: 30 minutes kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrtkbKmErt6Uj5s.html Carl Muncks: The Code. 5 hours log about ancient sites, the math, their placement, energy of the sites, the energy of the earth and the Great Pyramid. You may want to view the first 3 min and then forward to 4 hours and 17 seconds for the info about the Great Pyramid, its functions and the energy and tilt of the earth in the past and of today. The go back and view the whole first parts. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9Fjf7yCybG4hGQ.html Ancient Knowledge Full Doc: even longer, enjoy. Its best to discovery within on a spiritual level of inner and outer energies and realms, then you gain a more expansive understanding of it all and not just mental. So a change to a cleaner diet, nature, backing away from people, places and things that are of lower nature and so on; will assist process. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKiofLV-y8eVpqc.html Maybe from your other channel: German Village goes alt and sustainable energy power. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qqtgYM6akqmmlqc.html “It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, & body. We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.” Manly P. Hall "There Lies a World hidden, mysterious, unknown, & forbidden. Where dwell entities with technologies beyond our comprehension & knowledge kept hidden from us, in this other dimension. Will the truth ever be revealed? Earthly forces of power & greed forever sealed, forbidden knowledge for warfare to wield. When humankind understands, to use the knowledge acquired from these strange lands. For the benefit of humankind, then entrance into their world we will find." ~ F.S

My god...the world is being run by insane people. If we don't come together and stop these corporate criminals, we are lost.

There was a large gas play near the MacKenzie delta in the early '70s. Enough was found to justify a pipeline down the valley, but it was never built.

I wish UNCLOS would have never extended the EEZ by adding the complex and contentious clauses regarding extension due to the continental shelf. A clear up to 200 nautical mile from the baseline for the EEZ would eliminate much of the conflict.

Really enjoyed this mini-documentary format!!

Very very interesting video. Thank you for sharing this with the world. 🌎

It’s been untouched for millions of years… World leaders: Let’s go exploit it!

Everything makes more and more sense each day.

I'm going to move to Nome, Alaska, to sell air conditioners and ice makers, and to grow coconuts and bananas.

In regards to the Arctic, Russia is ahead, they have the most developed resources to make the best of the Arctic, they have shipping ports built already plus the most icebreakers so we can all expect a war soon

With solar and wind tech where it is today it just seems silly to invest in new oil and gas wells. It’s like going to the store to buy a new phone and opting for a rotary dial land line instead of a smart phone. I get that there are very serious energy security concerns right now in some European countries, but building a new gas well in the arctic which won’t come online for several years isn’t going to help with this winter. Might as well dedicate that money to sustainable technology instead.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982 is the main foundation of legal order, according to which the five polar states bordering the Arctic Ocean have the right to establish a territorial sea up to a limit of twelve nautical miles and an exclusive economic zone of up to 200 nautical miles. Defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans; it establishes guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. To date, 167 countries and the European Union have joined the Convention. This treaty both codified customary international law and established new law and institutions for the ocean. The United States did not ratify UNCLOS because of fears among conservative Republicans that it would undermine U.S. sovereignty by transferring “ownership” of the high seas to the United Nations.

"It's important to understand that the percentages and estimates that are provided in these reports are really highly uncertain" 😬

Protect our Earth 🌏 Protect the Arctic

If such oil drilling and extraction continues, i hate even imagining how such human greed would erase and made frozen arctic landscape, many more species and its exotic ecosystem just a mere dream for us which existed at some point of time in Anthropocene epoch.

A real 'cold' war.

Thankyou so much for your observations. I will share. X

so much history under the artic ice.

If those countries that are "Arctic Neighbors" want to fight over it, I'll expect they'll stay away when it's the Antarctic under dispute. We should at least leave one continent in a pristine state.

10 years ago there was a big hype for the Arctic shipping routes opening with expensive cruses. It has been a failure as the warming hiatus continues and quite honestly is going in the opposite direction. It will likely become very difficult to work north of the arctic circle in the near future.

Not to mention how much iceberg vodka is worth. Apparently someone in Newfoundland stole a container full of water and it was worth $20,000 so it’s very sought after and I must admit it do taste better. Just try our good ole iceberg beer only sold in Newfoundland it’s the best tasting beer on the planet

"It's not as simple as you might think." Yes, it is. Humans' greed always wins.

Save Our Planet

After the pole shifts they will be lucky to be alive to mine anything along with the rest of us that aren't in an elevation at least 800 ft or more

At personal level no one can handle and limit excessive environment and resources abuses. We need some global international systems. Totally unbiased.

Mother Nature needs to step in to STOP all these nations from exploration of the Arctic - we can but hope!

I am totally in favor of global warming. I hate the long, cold winters in Colorado where I live. So a year ago I began focusing on increasing my carbon footprint. Thus far I have been able to raise the average daily temperature in Colorado by 4 degrees. I will continue until I can grow palm trees in my yard. Freedom!

Americans have been drilling for oil in Alaska for several decades. It transports crude oil through pipelines that cross Alaska from north to south. I know this for sure, I read it in the American magazine National Geographic. It was an article about caribou migration and how the pipeline route obstructs the animals' path. DW should inform itself better and stop misinforming.

Why do they drill so many holes in both poles? Is that not aiding the speed of ice melt?

Very knowledgeable.

Fantastic video!

13:15 "it takes an average of 16 years until new oil and gas projects reach maximum productivity" - could you please name me the source where you have this from? I would be very interested, thank you!

Has anyone bothered to go and look at how much sea ice there is in the arctic? And no, summer sea ice has not disappeared despite the hysterics predictions and is not likely to disappear any time soon. The reality is, working in the arctic is extreme and expensive. Just because there are resources there does not mean it is economical to extract them. This is just another example of the typical DW climate hysteria puff piece. You know, like the ones about desert areas experiencing drought and islands where the people have cut down all the trees and over fished the waters because of climate change.

I accept that our leaders see more value in letting the ice melt and exploiting the resources than saving our current world. I’m going to enjoy seeing snow while I can.

If you put your drill down are you able to ensure the next country will?

Thank You DW for the very important and useful one!

Greenland is culturally closer to the Inuit in northern Canada, than to Denmark. Iceland doesn't even touch the Arctic. Norway and the US's claims are so small. Its really between Canada and Russia - the only two trully arctic territories.

I read about this months ago and couldn’t believe it. There maybe war over this area someday.😞

Climate change is not that dangerous, during the last ice age Norway was under kilometers of ice. What's dangerous is the over exploitation of fish and wildlife, and the chemicals that make us infertile. Who will breed fish and wildlife when they can no longer do it naturally in the future?

Not quite true the IMO implicated the sulphur cap 2020 which limited emissions, vessels either had to move to exhaust scrubbers or use MGO.

Only thing that can increase sea level is solid matter, like rocks or cliffs, falling into the sea.

I would have liked this video if there wasn't talked like only one state is the culprit. OK you can be against some nations, (some of) their leaders or specofic people, but please don't use an umbrella term, because you always can hurt people and make them turn against you or your goals.

The irony is the world needs these fossil fuels, and rare earth materials to build all these green technology gizmos like electric cars, batteries, solar panels and so on. Your dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t! There should of course be strict rules on how any nation or corporation behaves in these regions.

great video, but at 11:37 you say that arctic states are "working together, without russia" and then proceed to give an example of international cooperation which was "signed by the US, Russia, China, EU and several more countries". I'm not a logical fallacy expert or anything but...

Common sense is that once military bases are made there we know what it will do to the area.

I know many people will disagree but I honestly don't think that excluding Russia from those agreements is a good idea. I find it really worrying when people put all the blame of the Ukraine war on Russia, as if its citizens were ok with that. It's actually the consequence of a military culture coupled with western pressure for Russia to do as they say. So, what I'm trying to say is that we should focus on getting all parts to some agreement, like the fishing ban mentioned in the video, and continue work towards oil and gas ban, not only in the artic but in the planet as a whole. We have to remember that the people of the Russian Federation are as much victims of this geopolitical war games as the other citizens of directly affected countries, except those in Ukraine that are obviously the most impacted ones. So, isolating and sanctioning Russia is not the way beyond, it has historically caused more harm than good. It often leads to far-right and ultranationalist groups gaining more power and then leading to catastrophic conflicts. Putin isn't great, but a far-right dominated Russia would be way worse to deal with. Diplomacy should be our main tool, not guns and heavy armsrace. The problem with diplomacy is that it takes both sides to give up on something, which both the West and Russia have constantly failed to do so. That can be done if the high executives of important end-consumer companies start to drift their business away from fossil fuel production and choose more sustainable options, even if such options are more expensive. That would leave their respective countries with the upper hand on negotiations. The thing is, for that to be true as early as possible, it would require the West coming closer to China, increasing the trade with chinese manufacturers of steel and silicon for the production of wind turbines and solar panels. However, the Great Leaders of the West have decided to ramp up their commercial war against China, instead of using this as opportunity to cooperate and come closer. It's madness, really! They are trying to confront both China and Russia at the same time, picturing them as villains of the world.

Many voices are louder then one. We must acted now but how, how can we come together to prevent this?

"Will they cooperate" i dont think so

Protective measures need to be in place, protecting the planet is paramount not humans

Okay, so this was no brainer. Here is question: would there ever be a time for those who will be most affected, 15-25 right now, to wake up, leave *everything* and make climate fight their first priority? Or they will go to oblivion spending time on social media fangirling\fanboying only one day to wake up to find their way of life does not exist anymore? Nature knows, previous generation messed up but we had hope and possibility of decent (enough) life.

It is no surprise to me that these are the end times.

It's interesting too that there going to indigenous people to really learn more about what goes on in the artic. I'm proud to be a Native American in USA to understand more about what's going on in the world. Thanks KZfaq.

well made video

Together we can overcome it. Now look back & see what we've learnt. Fair to say that together we can also totally destroy it, thus creating another unwanted ecological challenge compounded by another.

Not as simple as I think? Eh… I think that the nations (more accurately, those in power, in the nations) will want to further short term economic profits, and exploit the resources, climate change be damned! …with maybe _some_ concern for trying not to look too bad, to the public. That's pretty damn simple, and I fail to see how you could possibly present anything, that would say otherwise.

An atmospheric methane scriber and catch is a challenging design.

Great video.

According to the sea floor topography Canada’s continental shelf extends up to the North Pole region and by international laws a countries territorial waters extend 1000km’s off its continental shelf.

The oil and gas resources in the Arctic are safe as present predictions of the ice melting are as likely to happen as those made in the past. "The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming,” Al Gore 2009

one of my fav channel.

We'd better prepare. The artic will melt, and sea levels will rise. Eventually it will freeze again, but for now, it seems unstoppable.

You people say so many inaccurate things, and tell so many lies; it's hard to take you seriously. What ever you hear from this, the opposite is most likely true. 20 years ago the same people told us the earth was about to freeze over, now they're saying it's heating up! Next they'll be telling us that the seasons aren't real.

Some countries are literally trying to reclaim land to expand waters.

Interesting, but nothing new. DW doesn't define what it means with the word 'arctic'. The arctic area is defined is several ways; (1) areas north of the polar circle - which leave many 'cold areas' outside the defined area, (2) areas where trees doesn' grow, and (3) areas where the mean summer temperature is below 10degC. Following (2) and (3) the arctic area will, in the foreseeable future, get smaller and smaller, - and eventually disappear (?). The polar circle also varies a bit - but that is for other reasons than climate. So why not plan for what seems to happen (regardless what we do). We could get another Maunder minimum - that gave us 'The Little Ice Age, But will it have the same effect as it had in the pre-industrial period of 1645 to 1715, - when the number of people - with modest 'climate consumption' - was just a fraction of what we have today.

What about Finland? 1/3rd of Finland's land mass is above the artic circle.

Maybe more fuel for the space and production of the robots, then a complete AI empire?

It's impossible for countries to cooperate. Period.

Amazing 🤩

I shudder to think what will happen when the permafrost thaws, and starts to release the trapped methane.

I am not climate activist and I don’t like how come activists do! I kinda scared, when ice melts millions will die and the 100 million of people have to move out of city that will be under the sea.

Silly me, I thought the idea was to stop using Oil and Gas use altogether. Or did I miss something?

A Russian research vessel has discovered 511 billion barrel reserves in British Antarctic territory. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Though when push comes to shove it will be drilled, but not until oil prices have risen.

Long term investment in the response to the aftermath of climate change, even in the face of it, suggests our fate, at least the fate of coastal regions, has been determined.

Russia can place nuclear reactors on oil rig type platforms, to heat the sea water directly

@DW That looks like exposed rock and NOT black carbon particles as implied by the timing of the narration and the displayed image. 10:29

It should all be set aside for distant future generations. Arctic exploitation gives huge financial incentive to encourage global warming/climate change.

The way the sea and air currents work in the Arctic, means that the ice is pushed up against Canada and the northern tip of Greenland. The rest of the Arctic is relatively open and navigable in August and September, and that window of navigability will increase over time. Furthermore, most of the oil and gas resources are in Russia and Alaska both offshore and on land, and offshore in Norway and in the Bering Sea. Canada and Greenland do not have the right geology for oil and gas, except for a small part of Canada next to Alaska.