Rush for Arctic

Many people from different countries have conquered the North Pole like Mount Everest or K-2 but North Pole is always remaining inaccessible for human beings in terms of politics and economics. Now some of them like to reach there not for hiking, but for resources especially blood of world “oil”. As we all know that area covered by think solid snow all the time but now as the global temperature is increasing steadily, the thick ice sheet of arctic is melting day by day. This process of melting put especial attention of “neighboring” countries of arctic towards it. The United state of America from Alaskan side, Canada from its Ellesmer Island and Beaufort Sea, Denmark in terms of green land, Norway with Svalbard and Russia via six islands and border edges touches the “land” of arctic. As a student of International relation I believes in “Long cycle of history” and “rise and fall theory”, these terminologies applied in politics and can be used in world attention and response because international relations have its changing nature. According to an estimate Caspian Sea of central Asia have about 200 billion barrel oil that’s why the whole world put there face towards it, particularly Russia, US and European and south Asian nations. Although the Gulf region is the bigger exporter of oil but the nature is changing. The united state of geological survey published its report that arctic could contain 25% of world’s undiscovered oil reserves. According to report only Green land rift basin has about 31.4 billion barrel oil in the form of natural gas.
The belonging countries are waiting eagerly and watching the narrowing process of ice. In later years or decades this cold region would become a hot region.

jamil Abbasi