I have a Q&A with the foreign minister of Greenland in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe today:
GREENLAND, A SPARSELY populated, ice-covered island in the Arctic
Ocean, has for most of its history been a place where events move at a
glacial pace. But lately things in Greenland have been heating up,
literally and figuratively: Its traditional economy of subsistence
hunting and fishing has become one of the first casualties of global
warming, which has disrupted animal migrations and melted the ice
needed for dog sledding. And the same climate change is also opening up
exploration of potential oil and mineral reserves that many expect will
make its 56,000 people vastly wealthy. The world's largest island,
almost a synonym for sleepy remoteness, is facing a transformation that
could make it one of the biggest geopolitical hot spots of the 21st
century, the Kuwait of the Arctic.
Read the rest here.
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