The last inaccessible frontiers of mankind is getting exploited,

We earthlings on planet earth have known this place for the past 100,000 years with Homo sapiens and Homo erectus dominating and Homo Sapiens decimating or wiping out Home erectus about 75 - 90,000 years back. Homo sapiens have moved from culture to culture till about 6000 BC we started settling down at places and started agriculture, belief in Gods, settling down leading to civilization etc.

The polar caps in Greenland have remained under ice for millions of years. With the global global warming phenomenon that is happening, we find global ice is slowly melting off, leading to land that has been buried under ice for perhaps hundreds of millions of years getting exposed to the atmosphere.

This is a threat to mankind and also a blessing in the sense we get to know how the planet Earth had been hundreds of millions of years back, what were the plants and living beings, flora and fauna that once flourished and wandered in Greenland and other islands in the North Arctic circle. 

Rich explorers, philanthropists and businessmen of the like of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates are also on the lookout for a new thing - minerals. Old existing mineral deposits and new undiscovered mineral deposits that can help change mankind for the better by offering new products and new uses to improve the way we live and interact with each other. 

Will the new mineral deposits change the way we live and think about the 21st century ? Will the metling Greenland bring more and more flora and fauna to earth, which we have not known for the past hundred thousand years or so. These are interesting questions to which we can expect answers very soon.

George. (image courtesy CNN)