CLASSIC: The Race to the Arctic: Who will control the poles?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Across the span of modern human history, the Arctic has been a desolate, dangerous wasteland of freezing ice, inaccessible waters and more than a bit of myth. Yet as the ice recedes, countries and corporations around the globe are already gearing up to take possession of the region's future trade routes -- and billions of dollars' worth of previously untouchable resources. The pieces are already on the chessboard, with multiple groups accusing each other of cover-ups and deceptive tactics. One questions looms larger and larger with each passing season: Who will control the Arctic?
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| 0:00.0 | Who buddy? |
| 0:01.0 | 2019 was a different time and in the middle of you of that time we are returning to you with a classic episode, |
| 0:09.0 | The Race to the Arctic for a long of those inacestable regions of the world map. It's a |
| 0:20.8 | why would you go there kind of place. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, but there are a lot of countries that have territory that head right up into the old Arctic. |
| 0:29.0 | So there are reasons to be up there, got to defend your space you got to make sure |
| 0:35.7 | nobody else is coming up onto your lands and waters even and water is even and |
| 0:41.3 | your underwater lands, right? |
| 0:44.0 | Because when we were looking at this, the writing was already on the wall. |
| 0:51.0 | There was something already in the wind. As the ice in the North Pole evaporates, |
| 0:57.2 | we're looking at the possibility of enormously profitable trade routes. |
| 1:03.0 | Billions upon billions of dollars of freight transit, |
| 1:06.0 | but also untold billions of dollars |
| 1:10.0 | of previously inaccessible resources. |
| 1:13.2 | Oh, it's the raw stuff up there. |
| 1:16.2 | Watch out. |
| 1:17.2 | Watch out. People will do terrible things to get those sweet resources. |
| 1:23.0 | True story, yeah, and when you tune into this one, folks, please, please reach out to us because we want to know your thoughts. |
| 1:31.0 | Who will control the Arctic. |
| 1:34.6 | Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on I-Heart |
| 1:38.9 | Radio. I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people |
| 1:43.8 | you wouldn't be wrong to call monsters. |
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