01 Viewpoint
Due to extreme climate, the Arctic Circle is difficult to become the ideal habitat of human beings.However, with the warmth of the world, the economic activities of the Arctic Circle are becoming more frequent, and it has become a place for geopolitics in geopolitics.However, the cost of developing the Arctic Circle does not decrease due to scientific and technological progress. As Russia's Power Plant in Siberia occurs in the oil leakage accident in late May, its cleanup work is not only severely blocked, but also polluting 350 square kilometers of land.And 20,000 tons of diesel penetrate into the river, causing ecological disasters.If all countries do not use this to reflect on the necessity of developing the Arctic Circle, the scourge of overdrawn will be retributed to the next generation.
According to the BBC report, a power generation plant located in the Russian Arctic Cross Norilsk, on Friday (May 29) due to damage to the oil cylinder, severe oil leakage occurred, up to 20,000 tons of diesel leakage into the leakage intoRiver in the Arctic Circle.Although President Putin announced the local state of emergency on Wednesday (3rd), and ordered the cause of the investigation of the accident to question why local officials and oil companies chairman delayed.However, because the infrastructure is insufficient and the weather is bad, it makes it difficult to clean up the work.
Russian saliva resource
Under the plunge of oil prices, Moscow continued to have a high cost at a high cost, and the natural resources that mining the Arctic Circle seemed to be illegal, but the Arctic Circle was a strategic goal of calculating it beyond the short -term cost.Since the Crimean crisis in 2014 and the Ukrainian armed conflict of the following year, Russia's energy exports have gradually shrunk due to European and American sanctions, forcing this energy export country to change market positioning and open up the Asia -Pacific market to hedge political risks.For example, Yamal LNG, a Russian sky gas company, is using the power of Chinese funds to develop a gas field with more than 200 wells with 926 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and about 86%of the production capacity to the Asia -Pacific region.
However, natural resources are only a part of competition in large powers. Russia's activities in the Arctic Circle are becoming more active, and there are also considerations to expand the channel.The coastline of Russia and the Arctic Circle is 2,00 to 2,900 nautical miles long, but because the north has been in frozen for many years, the North Sea Route is opened only three to five months each year. At the same timeIt can be applied by not each merchant ship.However, according to the melting speed of the current Arctic Circle Glacier, it is believed that the North Sea Channel will be as endless as Suez Canal after decades, and it can greatly reduce the distance and time of the Eurasian navigation.In other words, Moscow can not only open up the Arctic Circle Channel to shorten the distance from the export market, but also seize the opportunity when there is controversy in the channel and the territorial waters.
Multi -country tiger
In the Arctic Council, it is not only Russia, but countries also look at the fertile soil of this film, but the only pure land to develop this stone fruit may not meet the long -term interests of various countries.Last year, a research report pointed out that the average temperature of the Arctic Circle has reached the second highest in the record in 1900, and the rise in the water level has also damaged the original food chain of the original nature, causing polar animals such as polar bears to fall into a crisis of survival.
More seriously, global warming induced by economic activities will not end in the Arctic Circle.As the temperature rises to melt the iceberg, after the frozen soil that has been frozen for many years, its solid carbon dioxide will be re -released to the atmosphere and exacerbate climate change speed.What's more, the melting of frozen soil itself is like a self -strengthening cycle, which will cause more frozen soil to permanently melt, and in turn to accelerate the pace of climate change.In addition, according to the U.S. Geological Survey estimates, there are 1.656 million tons of mercury (mercury) in the polar glaciers and permanent frozen soil, which is twice the total of land, ocean and atmosphere.Enter the food chain to destroy the ecological cycle of wild animals and plants, fishing industry and human beings.Now that we have long known that the development of the Arctic Circle will bring irreparable and inestimable damage, why should we bear the price of the next generation?
