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Carson
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22 September, 07:47
Why shoul Antarctica be preserved
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Skyler Randall
22 September, 08:08
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Because it contains loads and loads of ice - It's the second largest region in the world, only being surpassed by Russia. And all of that contains some level of ice. Imagine all that ice going in to the oceans. It would cause high rises in sea level, causing major flooding of low-lying areas.
Furthermore, being so large, it's home to many species of animal, which depend on the habitat to survive. So changing the habitat would result in extinction of species living in the area
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Kenley
22 September, 08:09
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There is no good reason to preserve Antarctica, except sentimental ones,
like "tradition" ... the notion that just because it has always been there, it
should remain there. There are many sound reasons for taking advantage
of everything it has to offer, without getting hung up on preserving it.
Antarctica is a huge area, with very few animals and zero people living there.
Using only a little bit of our many modern technologies of mass destruction,
the animals could easily and quickly be obliterated, leaving a totally empty
continent that could house a large fraction of the Earth's teeming population,
giving them a clean place to live, with plenty of fresh air, away from the filth,
squalor, and congestion of their home neighborhoods. And totally unlike the
places where they grew up, there would be plentiful fresh water available for
every individual, just waiting for each person to simply go out and take a slice
at a time, whenever he needed some, and melt it. There could be living space
for everyone, water for everyone, jobs for everyone, without ever the fear of
an unexpected heat wave, thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, or flood.
At the same time, the riches that are right under their feet could be tapped
and exploited ... Who knows how much oil, gold, coal, natural gas, and
countless other mineral resources lie there under Antarctica? Such a
vast wealth of riches, so conveniently located, waiting to be pillaged for
the common good of everyone!
Conservation and preservation are all right, in their place, but not when
they stand in the way of so much benefit to so many people. With vast
numbers of people migrated and settled in Antarctica, the selfish notion
of preservation would rapidly become hazardous to healthy economic
growth, just as it always has in so many other places in the past. Such
a narrow policy must not be allowed to prevail. The continent was placed
there for our convenience, pleasure and profit, and we should not be
prevented from taking advantage of it by a bunch of iceberg huggers and
penguin lovers, who probably actually only want it for themselves so that
they can use it to grow their drugs, marry within their gender, and turn their
music up loud, with none of us patriots around to see it.
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