The Arctic becomes an Island

This is the first time in a reportedly 125,000 years the northwest and northeast passages have opened. Shipping companies are already planning to exploit the new route, which would take 4,000 miles off the journey between Europe and Japan.

I'm sure that turning the northwest passage (over Canada) into a shipping lane will cause even more damage to one of our very last "pristine" environments left on the planet.

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