Advantages and Disadvantages of Melting Polar Ice Caps
Summary:
As the polar ice caps melt, the climate change will produce advantages and disadvantages. The Artic will be more open to exploring for natural resources, but global warming is dangerous for the Earth.
The Artic holds treasure. The polar ice turns to water, the ice caps of the Artic are melting. When such as big shift is made in the climate overall, it effects globally. Of course, there are some advantages and some disadvantages it all depends on how you interpret it. The Artic can be wonderful place for business men or women. If we all look at it from the natures eye its heartbreaking and depressing. Some advantages can improve our life and some can have negative effect on our lives. The Artic is a wonderful place to be when you want money but, what happens about the natural wildlife that lives there? The cultures that live there can die or their cultures can disappear. Some advantages and some disadvantages lead this world. The combination of positives and negatives make this world successful and worth living.
There are many advantages that are amazing when we know of them. Some of the advantages are the ones that are going to help our next generation live. They will support our way of living, our needs in the world. One of the advantages is that the Arctic is filled with natural gas and petroleum. These resources will provide us with easier and long lasting transportation. This will increase the amount of cars or vehicles sold. As a result, of global warming the ice caps melt. So, the other advantage is there will be more ways, routes for transportation. Since, the ice will move out of the way the will be more clearance. For example, people looking for the Northwest Passage, which will be opened soon. There will be many passages open, since these passages will be open there will be a long shipping season. The cost of each trip will cost less because the distance will be shorter, and if the distance is shorter than the use of natural gas and petroleum will be saved. In addition, to that there will be more types of fishes and sea food. This will conclude that they will be an increase fish market. Since there are lots of advantages from the Artic the countries are rushing to get their territory. There is also going to be an increase in the territory of countries. As we see there are many advantages but, there are also many disadvantages as well.
As we all can see that there are some advantages and disadvantages due to the melting ice in the Artic.
Some of the disadvantages are discussed below. First of all the cause of melting ice in the Artic is due to the increase in global temperature. This means global warming, hurting the ozone layer. When humans hurt the ozone layer, chances of getting skin cancer increase. Harmful rays from the sun damage our skins. This issue has been the biggest of all. Global warming has affected everyone from humans to animals to sea animals. Since there is an increase in water temperature the sea animals from the Artic have so little time to adapt the changes. This causes the Artic animals' population decrease. This leads to extinction. Some of the polar animals can't get use to the hotter temperature that we cause for them. The problems don't end here, they continue in more depth. The increase in the water temperature leads to increase in water levels. The islands or countries that are on the coast have to die out. Many of the countries and island will be wiped out cause of increase in water levels. One of the most sad and depressing stories of the melting in the Artic is the disappearing of cultures. In fact, the people of the Artic will not find ice to build their igloos; their cultures won't be alive any more. The Inuit people will also not find their type of food to eat and then their culture will die as well. The stories that they have passed on to their children about ice or igloos will not be passed on anymore since there won't be things they need. These are some of most basic disadvantages that will be caused due to melting in the Artic.
Therefore, there are many advantages and disadvantages involved in the melting of the Artic. Some of most basic were discussed. The leading advantages will support our generation coming up. They will also help us to understand the world more. The advantages present in this particular Article are important and very useful. As we all see and say that there is always a bad side of the good side. The disadvantages currently presented here are important and hard to fine a cure for them. All the disadvantages talked about are painful and depressing. We all need to find a cure to all these problems soon or else it will be late and we won't be able to do anything.
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