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Climate change and profit

Thu., Sept. 19, 2019

All of the conversation on climate change is about the negative affects it will have but there are positive things, depending on your perspective and your pocketbook, that have and will occur in the future.

Vast areas of the northern regions will be open for mining, oil and gas production, and shipping will have passages heretofore closed to it. Billions will be made by those able to exploit this opportunity – namely governments and inhabitants from Russia, China, Canada and the USA. Why else would you want to buy Greenland but to exploit it?

Those people and politicians who deny the scientific evidence on climate change will not own up to the real reason they oppose efforts to stop climate change – for them it is an inconvenient truth.

Robert Cannata

Spokane

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