Show 2: Sara Wheeler, Author: The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
Title: The Warming Arctic: Boom or Bust for Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development
Studio Guest:
Sara Wheeler, Author: The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, Renown British Biographer, and World Explorer, From London, United Kingdom (By Skype)
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This program features the extensive research and personal travels about the Arctic Zone by Sara Wheeler an esteemed British biographer, world traveler, and author. Sara's latest book The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle covers two years of research and major travels across six nations of the Arctic Council while living on the very edge of nature's most life-threatening challenges. Sara will share her impressions about the Arctic, the earth's most rapidly changing climatic zone. The program will provide details about insights gained from indigenous tribal members, scientists, researchers, and off-spring of original settlers from the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Russia.
As published in April, 2010 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. USA the melting of the northern polar ice has dramatically altered this once static geographic and oceanic region. It is responsible for new-found profitability and geostrategic relevance for all members of the Arctic Council and the world. Access to crude oil, natural gas, minerals, marine resources, and shortened transportation routes between Europe and Asia are becoming accessible and viable sources of profit due to rapid climate change.
The report further states that the effects of climate change have launched the Arctic Circle to the forefront of geopolitical calculations, potentially transforming the region into a commercial hub fraught both with environmental concerns and complex challenges that have direct implications for Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States, and the newly autonomous country of Greenland. These signers of The Ottawa (Canada) Declaration in 1996 formally established the Arctic Council. This is an intergovernmental forum to promote cooperation, collaboration, and communications between those countries with physical claims on the Arctic along with representations by indigenous communities on mutual issues including sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic zone.
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Originally uploaded September 21, 2012
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