If you want to get a decent discussion of what's going on in the Arctic, you can either read this article at the Globe or listen to this Quirks and Quarks podcast segment about it. Basically, a lot of what looked like multi-year ice in the Arctic turns out not to be. Instead, what we have is slush with a veneer of ice, but nothing that even slows down an icebreaker. Unfortunately, the rotten ice looks like multi-year ice from a satellite, so nobody knows how far it has spread.
And in other cheery news, Polar Bears are resorting to late-season cannibalism, something usually unheard of in the fall and winter -- there's supposed to be plenty of hunting grounds on solid ice where the bears can catch seals. Instead, there's no ice, or ice that can't support the mass of a bear. So out of desperation, they're resorting to cannibalism.
The neat thing about global capitalism is that it creates the very metaphors you need to describe its predation.
And in other cheery news, Polar Bears are resorting to late-season cannibalism, something usually unheard of in the fall and winter -- there's supposed to be plenty of hunting grounds on solid ice where the bears can catch seals. Instead, there's no ice, or ice that can't support the mass of a bear. So out of desperation, they're resorting to cannibalism.
The neat thing about global capitalism is that it creates the very metaphors you need to describe its predation.
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