cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/20251
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– President Donald Trump is threatening to use both military and economic power to take control over Greenland. This is an outrageous insult to the Greenlandic people, the Inuit, and their right, defended by international law, to self-determination and to determine their own future. This insult has caused their righteous anger.
Greenland harbors immense mineral wealth, including rare earth elements (REEs) like neodymium and dysprosium—critical for batteries, wind turbines, and military tech—along with zinc, lead, gold, iron ore, copper, diamonds, and uranium. Potential offshore oil and gas reserves, estimated at 30 billion barrels by the USGS, add to its allure even though Greenland halted new exploration licenses in 2021 over climate concerns. Global warming, driven by capitalist exploitation, accelerates ice melt at 30 million tonnes per hour, exposing buried deposits for exploitation and opening Arctic shipping routes like the Northwest Passage. This eases extraction and transport, ironically fueling the very climate crisis that reveals these riches. Emissions from mining would further amplify warming, threatening Greenland’s ecosystems, coastal communities, and global sea levels— a vicious cycle where imperialism profits from the complete destruction of the environment. Read More ›
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