Thursday, March 19, 2009

Riches Await as Earth's Icy North Melts

Summarize:-
According to the article, many countries are competing for oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes, but the problem now is the climate has become hotter faster than before so that is dangerous for wildlife and population. Huge amounts of natural sources are still undiscovered until now; this is the main reason for governments and big companies to compete with each other. The Arctic is already controlled by companies and they use high technology to reach the oil undersea. At the current time petroleum companies develop technologies to explore natural materials and they hope to find them. Some huge companies fight for the areas which have the resources without any care about the future of the earth. They just think about the profit. The ice is one of the obstacles that faces some companies, for ship’s movement, so they want another way to solve this problem. The ice is melting more than before and fish move to another place and the level of the fish in the sea is reducing.

Main Idea:-
The money is not everything in the life; our planet has a lot natural resources and we can extract them perfectly if the countries work as one and the same thing with finding ways for ships. The global warming is playing a big role in this case so the problem is not only the countries, it is also the climate.

Comment:-
In my point of view, the article is quite good but the writer gives us much about countries. The writer says “Just a few years ago, reports said it would take 100 years for the ice to melt, but recent studies say it could happen in 10-15 years”; I think this is not right; the information might be wrong because there is a big difference between 100 to 10 or 15 years. If 100 years all this generation will die and the 10 years is too short a period so I think this information is not accurate.

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