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We haven't split up different sections to work on individually, but I plan to focus on environmental injustice between the Global North and South. The only nations that have rights to the Arctic waters are all developed nations. So if they exploit the Arctic resources, this would widen the wealth gap between the Global North and South. Why is this an EJ problem? Because exploiting the Arctic resources would worsen various issues associated with climate change, such as sea level rise, and the nations who will be affected first by this are poor island nations. So these island nations are going to be worse off by decisions made solely by nations that won't be affected as quickly. All the meanwhile those developed nations will be making money off something that will hurt poor nations.
Potential Articles:
On arctic resource race:
Natural resources of the Arctic
Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy
Petroleum exploration in the Arctic
On international environmental injustice- pollution havens:
Topic: Arctic Resource Race
Sources:
This source talks about a waste site beneath the surface that may not be contained "eternally" due to melting ice. This could be used to discuss one of the environmental injustices associated with the use of the Arctic as it continues warming.
Colgan, W., H. Machguth, M. MacFerrin, J.D.Colgan,D.vanAs,andJ.A.MacGregor (2016),The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL069688.
An executive order from Obama on the Arctic
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-01-26/pdf/2015-01522.pdf
A joint statement from Obama and Canada's prime minister banning Arctic drilling
Book: The Arctic Gold Rush: The New Race for Tomorrow's Natural Resources
ON THIN ICE: WATER RIGHTS AND RESOURCE DISPUTES IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN
editVsevolod Gunitskiy
Vol. 61, No. 2, WATER A Global Challenge (SPRING/SUMMER 2008), pp. 261-271