This is just incredible. To read it now, I am merely appalled by the willful ignorance and blind avarice dripping from nearly every sentence. But I can't imagine what emotion I might feel, reading it ten years from now.
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As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound The polar thaw is also starting to unlock other treasures: lucrative shipping routes, perhaps even the storied Northwest Passage; new cruise ship destinations; and important commercial fisheries.
"It's the positive side of global warming, if there is a positive side," said Ron Lemieux, the transportation minister of Manitoba, whose provincial government is investing millions in Churchill.
Let's see.... Entire economies turned upside down, forests turned to deserts, ice sheets likely creeping down the east coast of North America and northern Europe, massive flooding of major arable and urban areas.... Yeah, that sounds like a real positive future!! What do these fuckwits think they'll be shipping?? And who the fuck is buying???
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