Climate Change Represents Near-Term Profits Galore

This April, after a month of record temperatures in the Bering Sea, ocean ice in the Arctic is at an all-time record low for the date, crushing the record set … last April.

Alarming?  Not if you’re U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who praised the Arctic region — and its rapidly shrinking levels of sea ice — for its economic opportunities.  Said Pompeo:

“The Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance; it houses 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources.  Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.”

Makes one wonder where those “steady reductions in sea ice” are coming from, doesn’t it?

Think of it.  Untold riches for the world’s billionaires, and all for the price of the habitability of one tiny planet.