But the opening of the Arctic is not just about new shipping routes. There are vast resources that lie, unexploited, beneath the ice: oil, minerals, fisheries. To take full advantage of this, stronger, larger and more powerful ships are needed. And they're coming, quickly.

Meaning no dis to your fine, captivating writing, there's something about that quote that gives me the shivers. we could be taking a different tack towards to how we live here, no? Aren't we long past the damage threshold?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin