The world is grappling with the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the civil war in Syria, the rise of China and middle-class stagnation in the United States, and Mother Nature is poised to deal us another strategic curveball: a race to own the Arctic, the last great untapped source of hydrocarbon energy on Earth. That’s right, the home of Santa’s
The Coming of Polar Geopolitics
Melting polar ice is giving the world access to untapped oil resources and previously unnavigable waters. Countries, of course, are scrambling to stake their own claims to this new geopolitical target.