Reading Summary

Monday 09/17/07
Reading Summary
The article I read was about the artic ice melting. Some people are seeing this in a good way and others in a terrible way. The good way people are seeing is that it will enable new routes for ships and it will be shorter to get from one part to another which will require less energy to be used. Also, there may be new resources found and it is predicted that there are twenty five percent of the world’s oil hidden in the artic. Russia, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the United States are already in a race to take the ownership of the land. It started when Russia placed its flag on the artic land. The negative way people are looking at is it that they will be loosing a part of the world and the life living on it. They will loose the animals and plants living there and it may be lost forever. The ice melting will also cause a major rise in the water levels which may result in floods in many countries and leave many people homeless and disease may spread.