Mais gouverner c'est prévoir, et certains voient peut-être plus loin que moi.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/277390Antarctica, the new hot real estate
There's oil and gas in the Antarctic, too, which global warming may open up. But as the U.K. and others stake claims, scientists wonder what it would cost environments there, and ultimately the planet
LONDON – As Russia, Canada and Denmark roll up their sleeves and flex their muscles over the Arctic and North Pole, planting titanium flags on the ocean floor and planning new military bases around the Arctic Circle, a similar drama is unfolding at the opposite end of the Earth.
Britain is considering submitting data to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) that would give the U.K. exclusive economic rights to over a million square miles of seabed off the coast of its Antarctic territory. Australia has already put in their own claim to the seabed off their Antarctic territory, and there is little doubt the other five nations that claim a slice of the continent – Norway, Argentina, Chile, France, and New Zealand – will do so as well by a 2009 deadline.
This will all be based on article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which gives every nation in the world economic rights to the seabed up to 560 kilometres off its coastline or continental shelf (the same basis for the Russian claims in the Arctic).
Reste juste à espérer que le chateau de carte de la «zivilizazion industrizielle» s'écroule avant qu'il ne dévaste cette écosystème déjà durement frappé par la fonte de la banquise et des glaciers. Comme là montréa l'expéditon du Sedna 4 dernièrement. 
Quand on a un javelin dans la main, tous les problèmes ressemblent à un T-72.
