Host Alex Calder examines how climate change is transforming Greenland, with the ice sheet losing two hundred eighty billion tons annually. This melting paradoxically creates economic opportunities, revealing vast deposits of rare earth elements, minerals, and potential oil reserves worth billions. The episode explores the resource rush, booming tourism, and expanding fishing industries. Geopolitically, Greenland has become central to a new Arctic great game, with the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union competing for influence over strategic shipping routes and military positioning. The episode also addresses social challenges facing Greenland's fifty-six thousand people, including high suicide rates, housing shortages, and the tension between cultural preservation and rapid modernization.
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