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"Killing the Arctic", Arctic Commodity, Nils Adolf Erik…

- - - - The thirst for Arctic minerals in the last century has been matched by new and growing demand for the region's vast oil and gas reserves.
        All parts of the Arctic have peak levels of sewage, fuel and waste pollution.
      - The proliferation of advanced military facilities in the North during World War II and the Cold War exacerbated the problem.
        Much of the Arctic has been converted into military barracks and industrial towns, with air bases, submarine harbours, naval shipyards and missile launch centres dotted around the Arctic periphery.
      - The Cold War arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union caused massive pollution in the Arctic, leaving behind fuel emissions, metal spills, rust and plastics that continued to affect the Arctic environment for decades long after the Cold War ended
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        Russian Coastline Freight
        
        Petroleum and Natural Gas
        
        Canada Nortwest Passage
  - - - Heat Regulation Failure
  - - - Norlisk Oil Spill
  - - - Blanketed Siberia with smoke clouds larger than the EU
- - - - These slaughters slaughter drove Russia’s eastward expansion to the Pacific and the formation of joint-stock entities like the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada.
        
        Moreover, hunters and fishers too damaged ecosystems by feeding themselves while in the wild. (auks, puffins, eggs of dozens of bird species, Steller’s sea cow [extinct]