🇦🇶The Battle for the Arctic l Fault Lines

Fault Lines looks at the potential environmental impact of resource extraction in the Arctic, and what that might mean for the people who live there.
The UN has imposed a 2013 deadline for the submission of scientific claims to the Arctic seabed. It is the precursor to a resource boom which would see Canada, the US, Russia, Norway and Greenland all attempt to exploit the region's resources.
These Arctic countries are desperately mapping out their territories so they can tap into the fossil fuels and minerals locked beneath the fast melting ice.
And with global warming speeding up the melting of the Polar ice caps, potential shipping routes are opening up - raising concerns about oil spills, and control over these new passageways.
Fault Lines' Josh Rushing heads to the Far North to see first-hand how Arctic countries are responding to the potential bonanza.
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[@Iguanaintrouble]

good documentary for a short overview, still leaves a lot to be learned

[@Borat911]

Seriously there's no place left on the panet to escape from the big corporate and national interests ... We are all stuck in this mechanism of growth and consumption ... Nobody knows where this will end

[@FreakOnTheLeaf]

That has to be one of the greatest quotes I've heard in a long time.

[@mcblankslate]

Military IS Economics.

[@gothgurlsuckz]

"..then we'll realize we cant eat money" well said at the end of the video to conclude it.

[@bluemountaindrivepae]

Oil, natural gas or fish. I will take fish.

[@davidperi2646]

The arctic natives will suffer and not get rich because all the corporations and politicans will get it.

[@arthurheidt6373]

there are no arctic natives except the countries who have a geographic closness to it

[@theresa42213]

This is INSANE!

[@matthewmann8969]

Maybe at some point the seals, sea lions, walruses, whales, polar bears, arctic fish, Caribou, moose, elk, oxen, will all make a come back

[@FreakOnTheLeaf]

Probably wont be any conflicts. However, if an oil-spill were to happen, the consequences would be horrible...

[@carolchen2320]

I know we already do a lot but please more indigenous people representations please

[@pravinRajGiri12]

Now the turn of minerals?????

[@freddiebrown13]

Am watching this for Gografy

[@dhockey63]

Eh, except i think scientists should have access to it. Just scientists though

[@mrvader24]

In the Henoch prophesies this is what ultimately brings World War 3.

[@bigmedge]

It'll never happen, the Canadians always were & are our brothers

[@MoonV29]

Aint Mahathir already said that this area is belong to the world!

[@robertolson7304]

its may in Alaska an its 26F at night.. when i was little it was already 70F in may.. so what has happened. well it use to snow in august and now snow in october.. its called the weather patterns changed do to ? the sun.. thats why we have probs there.

[@GodofAnger2002]

Did I hear a Lamb of God fan? While it might not be a direct quote.... We sure can't eat paper with numbers on it..

[@theunholysoul]

Nope. Actually it warms it up. Also, you cannot really blame the sun. Think about - it for past few years the Sun was in minimum state, yet the planet is warming. You can prove it yourself by doing your own experiment instead of listening to lots of BS.

[@dhockey63]

Solution: Create a new country and call it "The Arctic Republic", whoever wants to immigrate there can do so.

[@ErikID142]

It's funny cause the Canadians think they could ever challenge the US in the event of a conflict.

[@ttmallard]

"Time is up." Forget boiling water for watts, it uses the Steam-Age's totally inefficient thermal method. To get a Watt on-the-wire using steam takes 2-Joules, the Joules are waste-heat, a direct heating of the planet, it's air, soils and water so to understand how bad this is the analog is Arctic sea-ice albedo-loss. With today's albedo-loss it's worth 25-years of USA power compared to the previous average 1980-2010 sea-ice cover, about 3,800-Terajoule-hours/yr for USA power = 95,000-Twh a year in energy, 1-Watt = 1-Joule. Global steam capacity is some 18,000-Twh/year so the waste-heat is 36,000-Twh/year of direct heating; to compare: 36000÷95000 = 38% of albedo-loss for impacts. We have direct control over this waste-heat and need to end the Steam Age especially using uranium and zero done about nuclear-waste just to boil water. To preserve the sea-ice can't be done by reducing emissions anymore, so consider my project to dam Bering Straits to create a sea-ice refuge, cutting to 1/100 the flow of Pacific water now about 5-Amazon rivers worth along with 30-Terawatt-hours of heat in fresher water that stays at the surface and melts sea-ice from below. To learn how to modify Dutch levee & dam techniques by restoring eroding village islands, raising them for sea-level rise and all before building the dam. With a weir dam in place, locks for shipping and marine mammals ice-polders can quiet currents and storm winds to allow refreezing the bottom. If those work to take over the northern 1/2 of the Bering Sea and all of the Chukchi with polders and levees to keep ice possibly year-round in many places and definitely no longer first to melt and last to freeze. At the same time knowing the ice-polders work to build atolls around methane plumes especially the pingos as they are above deep strata disruptions from the clathrates below to refreeze them. Our global problem is like this, a full glacial cycle takes 100,000-years and CO2 varies 100-ppm, from 180-280-ppm. During all those ice-ages the maximum CO2 was 305±5-ppm, ok, we passed that about 1916 and since then added 100-ppm. That's a glacial cycle in only 100-years and it's all ABOVE the highest CO2 value ever reached in a million years, acidifying the oceans 10-times faster than an extinction event. We must exit the Steam Age for electrons, most grid power is for thermal end-uses not electricity so to switch will only take 5-years, maybe 2-months if it was a war.

[@wealthon128]

People by nature are greedy! We have about 450 years in this world. Go ahead. Explore! 😂😢

[@abarlunera]

Free energy exist!!!!!

[@8VSaerdnA]

Ironic of u to use disgusting when u have picture of Monster as your avatar.

[@dhockey63]

what? Im a conservative, but what is wrong about this video?

[@DaSnipy]

It all belongs to Russia ! ^^

[@blakecooney836]

Not even close ;)

[@ronaldreed7698]

So they say, hahaha, they'll have to take it.

[@robertcharpentier6852]

The residents of Nunivut are incredibly fortunate to have great Canadian and American mining companies taking up the minerals within the territory. Those companies will be desperate for workers and a lifetimes of savings can be made at the great paying mining jobs, especialy if the native North Americans learn to be machine operators. It is actually a once in a lifetime opportunity to get the money to get ahead in life. Just throwing a harpoon into a seal or other sea creature to get food shouldn't be enough of a life for any modern family in North America. StocktonRob

[@MrCdrant]

"When will the world wake up and realize conspiracy theorists online believe the laws of physics to be untrue", fixed that for you. Please walk away with your ignorance and propaganda.

[@dhockey63]

Stick to AlJazeera English, the Arabic AlJazeera branch is horribly biased against westerners, jews, non-muslims pretty much

[@94757598494309438]

What a bunch of liberal media crap. Way to go Aljazeera, you sound just like MSNBC, CBS, ABC or CNN