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China continuing to win via its groundbreaking diplomatic strategy of “Don’t be a giant douchebag”
Leaving alone a big dial taht says “racism” and looking back at the National People’s Congress in triumph
Turning the racism dial all the way to zero, securing the racism machine using proper lock-out tag-out procedure, then decommissioning it
Either do it or dont. US and EU only care about exploiting Greenland, and they are not going to come back with a better offer if you threaten to turn to China
Greenland gave a huge mineral concession to a Chinese conglomerate about 20-15 years ago. The plan was to construct a huge mine staffed by Chinese workers. Greenland’s labour movement was strongarmed into exempting the Chinese workers from Greenlandic collective agreements and labour laws. From the Greenlandic point of view the mine project wasn’t ideal but it represented a hope of desperately needed economic diversification and development.
The project eventually failed. They managed to mine a bit of metals but the challenging Greenlandic climate and geography meant that the mine was never profitable and was shut down.
Is mining Greenland a good thing?
In that it is resources not going to america yes. In the long run it probably outweighs thr environment concerns related to whatever happens.
Yes and no. It is a good thing for the economic development it could bring. Greenland is severely underdeveloped, in part due to colonial mismanagement and in part due to the extreme geography of the country, and it’s significantly poorer than the rest of the Danish commonwealth.
It also has the potential to be very bad for the arctic ecosystem that the Greenlandic people depends on for the important fisheries industry.
In the end, the Greenlanders themselves are probably the best stewards of their nation.
I feel like folks from Greenland should be the ones to answer that.
environmental stuff affects everybody. they should get a free refusal but saying “yes” to it is more complicated.
Hard disagree. Rampant development is bad for the environment- I get it, but the US doesn’t ask the international community which of its resources it can develop. Canada doesn’t ask the UN where it can harvest lumber. Why can you demand it of other countries?
if we’re talking about “should” then you’ll be shocked to find out what i think should be done to the governments and corporations of the us and canada
Gold mining? No. It will be used mostly as a store of value and/or as a luxury product.
Copper mining? Eh, it seems that the world is going to need to mine huge amounts of copper to electrify. I recently attended a lecture by an environmental scientist, and he was pretty clear that there is pretty much no way around mining a huge amount of metals for transitioning the economy to clean energy*, other than de-growth, which basically no one is interested in.
Copper is one of these minerals and is needed as a conductor. The other mentioned by the article is anorthosite (never heard of this shit before) which is apparently used for fiberglass. As it turns out, using fiberglass insulation can cut down on heating energy use.
*That includes recycling
other than de-growth, which basically no one is interested in.
happily, de-growth is what we’re getting whether we like it or not! can’t have economic growth on a planet where you can’t grow food
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No, anorthosite, mined for aluminum, titanium, and fiberglass.
Ah or not an
I’ve just hear Anthracite with filters and such so much I assume.
China: hey Greenland how’s it going? Want to make a deal that will benefit us both?
Greenland: hmm, let me think about it.
China: Okay!
EU: We can’t let these guys make deals with China! We must heavily pressure them and make them fall in line!
US: you can’t make a deal with China! I will take your country instead! Fall in line!
Greenland: Wow, these EU and US guys suck, now I’m more inclined to make a deal with China so I don’t have to deal with them.
And thus, the self fulfilling Chinese prophecy of “do nothing, win” completes
the US absolutely wants to exploit greenland’s minerals, they just want to annex the place and sit on it till it gets meltier.
honetly this seems like baiting the US when they ought to be keeping a low profile as ole’ Don’s big brain has moved on to other concerns
