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Greenland has a vast ice sheet that’s over 1 mile thick on average. And this means that there’s something hidden under all that ice! Specifically, Greenland could be sitting on top up trillions of dollars worth of minerals, oil, and other scarce resources. So exactly how much money is hidden under Greenland’s ice? Watch to find out!
In this video, we’ll cover the extensive history of Greenland and how it came to be owned by Denmark, why the United States is so interested in taking control of Greenland, and what current estimates suggest about how much money is under all that ice.
And just to give you a little hint: if Greenland’s current known resources could be mined and sold, every Greenlander would become a multi-millionaire. That’s A LOT of money!
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I would say that Woodrow Wilson's reputation is going down, down, down steadily.
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Greenland should be for greenlanders
The world owes the USA alot for wars humanitarian aid iean sorry but ots a fact w out us world complains where we are we can be everywhere so yeah take Greenland
Get some ships that can haul the ice urn to fresh water put in water tankers and u def got trillions just in water value plenty of places need water and if we concerned its raising water levels well takes care of two issues thanks
Looking at a piece of land and an entire culture of people simply as money is… gross. Do better.
The people of the US do not want to buy Greenland, the idiot in the White House does.
This is a video that everyone should watch, it really makes you think about the future of global geopolitics. The way I see it, as a species we have to continue advancing to be able to roll with the tide of the changing planet. We started with fire:wood/coal, then oil and gas, now we are moving towards electricity:nuclear/renewables. We had to do what we had to do to get to this point, and that caused the planet to change. Now we can reach a point where we can stabilize the climate through widespread use of modern energy sources. If we can understand well enough how the planet works we can prepare and prevent disasters and continue to develop sustainably and evolve as a species.
Shipping channels and lanes
This is the secret of the island with the highest suicide rate in the world.
Greenland is a beautiful, vast and fairly empty island. The size of Mexico, almost entirely buried in ice, it is inhabited by only 57,000 people, which is equivalent to the population of our Pula. It has been widely rumored that it is luxuriously rich in mineral and ore resources and that Donald Trump wants to forcibly turn it into part of the United States of America. Less well known, however, is that this beautiful and sad island already has the highest suicide rate in the entire world.
The current global average suicide rate is nine people per 100,000 inhabitants per year. In warmer regions, this rate drops, so in Spain and Italy it is around seven, while in Russia it is around 25. However, in Greenland, according to various studies, this grim statistic has not fallen below 80 for decades. Today is even better, because it was much worse: in the late 1980s, the suicide epidemic in Greenland reached an almost unimaginable 120 people per hundred thousand inhabitants. If there were some kind of world championship in self-destruction, Greenland would be the permanent owner of the title.
So a new real (not a US MAGA fake one) opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join US – so maybe the US should focus on how to support Greenland/Denmark in both the defence and investments into more mining of Greenland instead of this talk about buying Greenland
Greenland the longs to seals and polar bears. NOT INUIT!
People are talking about the mineral and oil worth but not thinking how much money it will take to export it first to begin it is more differcult to live than Alaska which is already very hard to live
Shipping 🚢 lane control = market control
Id love it if trump would be able to pull this off
I can see Denmark and the US have a joint partnership on Greenland. A win/win for both parties.
Trump should respect other nationalities and other nations. Trump simply has no respect for anyone but himself.
I am disappointed that you chose to entertain this ludicrous idea – nobody is buying Greenland. Nor should its natural resources be exploited without regard to the environment, which is why Greenlanders have regulations in place to prevent such things.
And calling the relationship between Greenland and Denmark "contentious" is blowing it way out of proportion. Do they agree on everything? Of course not. But by and large they get along just fine.
I didn't want to see Trump using military to take over Greenland but China has plans to open mining in Greenland and next plan could be Chinese military bases in Greenland with nuclear weapons in North of the US. Greenland only have 56,000 population but China could use mining as an excuse to send 100,000 Chinese to take over Greenland. That is not acceptable.
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MAGA is Make America Greedy Again. – Bill Clinton
Climate change is cyclical. So calm your alarmism. You said climate change about 20 times.
the last 5 minutes makes me wonder "what would Luigi do"?
Honestly, Canada or the US should own Greenland either together or separate.
Greenland isn't even a real country it's barely a conoly. Denmark had it for years and they couldn't do anything impressive with it even though it's a stategic and financial goldmine. They can barely even afford to run the place. An Island with enough space for 50 000 000 people barely able to scrape together 50 000. You people are barely getting by and Canada or the US or both owning it would benefit Greenland better with our resources, infrastructure and we're able to do.
Why is Greenland so important to the world right now?
Answer: Because it is going to Make America Great Again!
the winter olympics should be exciting…how about the winner gets greenland
Weird to think Greenland could become the next Syria or Iraq. It's dangerous to have resources that others want.
“It’s melting! Let’s get the riches!”
Meanwhile… oceans level rises 5 to 7 meters.