Who will benefit from melting glaciers?
My guess will be some super rich industrialists without reading it...
Let's now read a recently published GRIST piece.
The piece explores the impact on salmon fishing, but also:
The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by melting ice, hoping to strike the next big lode.
With gold prices booming and demand soaring for copper, a metal necessary for making solar panels and electric cars, mining corporations have backed a number of major projects in the region. The Canadian government is paying for roads and power lines to improve access to them.
These will be relatively short-lived benefits, and will come at a huge cost...the loss of the glaciers.
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