You’d think with the millions of square miles of (for now) frozen ice cubes involved we various peoples could sit down and divvy it up equitably without going to war.

But no. Let’s spend billions on international squabbles and sabre-rattling. Let’s do everything we can to ensure that what could easily be a win-win for all involved turns into hostility, bad feelings and maybe worse.

I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot more hardware than a flag in a can buried in the bottom at the North Pole before this is settled.

Oh boy a hot war over one of the coldest spots on the planet...Ironic aint it?

Capitalism good, socialism bad. Self interest and greed good, cooperation and fairness very bad. Exploitation is the answer, saving the planet isnt even a question......after all, when the waters rise and civilisation collapses we have our secure and isolated estates to fall back on, err dont we?

The North Pole seabed is not currently regarded as part of any single country’s territory and is governed instead by complex international agreements.

What would we ever do without those complex international agreements eh?

Its not hard to imagine a collective rolling of humanity’s eyes over the way our politicians and governments are rapidly getting all puffed up over this. Am I supposed to believe that if push comes to shove that my glorius leader (Stephan Harper) will go to war over this? We are after all bolstering our navy and military because of all this.

If there was ever an issue that underscores how ill-suited our sub-divided species is for the challenge of meeting global scale problems its this one.

Its just a good thing we don’t have an asteroid or invading aliens bearing down on us, we’d be tripping all over ourselves in our haste to do anything about it.

So now we’re going to smear that black oily mess all over the arctic, AND fight over it no less. Maybe if the US wasn’t so greedywe could come to an international agreement that would really work.

Naw, Bush would break that one, too, just like he has with others. Gee, if I’m a citizen and I don’t trust our fearless leader how is the fearless leader from another country, especially speaking another language, supposed to?