Image via WikipediaThe wisdom of past is not historical thing, but a lesson that we need to remember for better world:
“Look, this isn’t the 15th century,” reminded Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay. “You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say, ‘We're claiming this territory.’”
It apparently escaped MacKay’s memory that it was not the 15th century, but September 2005, when the Canadian Defense Minister, together with a brave outfit of Canadian soldiers, stormed an uninhabited rock formation off the eastern coast known as Hans Island and raised the Maple Leaf. This “provocation” drew a fiery response from Denmark, which claims the island as part of Greenland.
— Robert Bridge, Russia’s Arctic Grab Hits Canadian Pride, Moscow News (carried by Turkish Weekly Journal), August 14, 2007
The existing indigenous population in the circumpolar arctic region face further pressures on their ways of life.
Image: Population distribution in the circumpolar Arctic, by country (including indigenous population), UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, (Accessed 22 October 2009). Visit link for full size image.
According to UNEP/GRID-Arendal, “Except for Greenland and Northern Canada, indigenous peoples form a minority, though they can form the majority in local communities.”
“They are therefore particularly vulnerable to increased immigration by non-indigenous people as a result of industrial development, and to increased competition for resources.”
Another problem local populations face is from pollution, often carried by currents and winds from as far away as Russia, Canada and even the United States. Pollutants end up in local wildlife, from seals, fish and whales, which then eventually makes its way into people.
(With thanks from source: Dominance and Change in the Arctic — Global Issues
Russia and others are vying for dominance in the Arctic. Emerging trade passages (such as the North West Passage) as climate change breaks up ice and creates new water ways, ... that the region may house approximately 25% of the world's oil reserves. .... A European Defense Force; Dominance and Change in the Arctic ...)
Thus, the Climate, Environmental and Indigenous Challenges - Europe Needs to Change Over Dominance as World Needs and it is not blaming Europe Union rather making it clear as it seems to many people that tendency of over dominance divides even body and mind as this is giving the worst problem human civilization has ever faced:
"From a nationalist perspective, we could say that America won WWI, and all of Europe lost — and lost big. The Europeans were bound to pay America huge sums for the privilege of having devastated one another. But in America as in Britain, one must draw a distinction between nationalist-minded elites, and financial elites. During the war the bankers had shown the face of a true comrade to both Britain and America — enabling the one to win the war, and facilitating the rise to power of the other. Each of the banker's "friends" got what it wished for. (One needs to be very careful of what one wishes for.)
We have seen how the banking comrade betrayed his British nationalist friends, by shifting the ground of hegemony westward while the old ground was being bitterly contested. It turns out that the American nationalist friends were also betrayed at the same time, by the same banking comrade, in a coup that will be described in the next section. Britain had won the battle for Europe, for a while; America had won the battle for strongest nation, for a longer while — but it was the banking elite who won the war — for discretionary power over the future course of world affairs."
(With thanks from source: A Brief History of the New World Order
2 Feb 2009 ... 1900, European dominance and the rise of Germany were the big .... The emerging American giant was being carefully tutored by past masters of global games. .... and The New World Order and Why isn't the CFR in the History Books? .... The problem in this case is the collapse of national economies and ...)
We can read a lot for researching from past for better future without blaming ancestors as they did what was right at that time, however if we repeat mistakes, we may be doing the worse if not the worst: European dominance in the past,history,new world,problems
Thanks for your kind attention to read it.
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