Half the worlds fresh water locked up in Antarctic ice sheet

[laowai]

I predict the next world war will be over water, most notably the fresh water found on Antarctica, along with it's other numerous additional resources.

In theory one could start a White only nation on Antarctia, and create quite a profitable society, due to the vast wealth of the continent. It's extreme isolation would provide a buffer zone to illegal aliens. And with todays technology it could be conceivable to create self contained heated living facilities such as houses with enclosed gardens lit by artificial lights, enabling people to live relatively unaffected by the harsh climate.

All the wind and the circumpolar Antarctic ocean current would provide all the energy resources needed. Along with the abundant fresh water, which could be turned into hydrogen fuel with minimal processing needed. Meaning you would be living on the largest fuel resource the world has ever known. Along with it being a necessity for human life, meaning you would have the potential to create a very wealthy society.

Also you would have the added bonus of creating a society that didn't require the need to displace an indigenous population, allowing Whites to finally live in peace without the White guilt we are forced to suffer currently.

Only problem is you would have to import all food.

World’s most expensive water: $52 per 750 mil bottle.

THE NUMBERS: Volumes of fresh water, in million cubic km. –

Glaciers and ice-caps~0.1

Total worldwide ~40.0
Antarctic ice sheets ~24.7
Groundwater ~12.0
Greenland ice sheet ~2.9
Lakes, ponds, and rivers ~0.1
WHAT THEY MEAN:

Since the Inatsisartut (Parliament) at Nuuk passed the Ice and Water Export Act in 2001, four companies have been shipping out bottled Greenland water on returning cargo and cruise ships. The cost, $52 per 750-ml bottle of icemelt, is about what one pays for a mid-range cognac. Should you buy?

(a) No hurry: Greenland will not run out soon. Greenland is the superpower of the world’s most valuable resource. By way of comparison, Saudi Arabia lies above 263 billion barrels of proven reserves of crude oil, or 18 percent of all world proven reserves. China’s arid west contains 55 million tons of rare earth ores, or half the world’s proven reserves. And the Congo’s 45,000 tons of cobalt are about 43 percent of the world’s total. Greenland, a self-governing “amt” under the Danish crown with a population of 56,000, towers above them in the thing matters most: excluding Antarctica, it owns fully 94 percent of the world’s above-ground fresh water.

Why? Greenland is an island with an area of 2.2 million square kilometers. This is about the size of Mexico. (Or Saudi Arabia. Or Texas. Or France + Germany + Spain + Italy + Poland.) It has been covered for the last 3 million years by an ice sheet averaging about 1.2 miles high (and climbing at its peak to nearly two miles) which contains 2.9 million cubic kilometers of frozen fresh water. The rest of the world’s above-ground fresh water totals about 0.2 million cubic kms, with half stored in dwindling mountain glaciers and half in streams, ponds, rivers and lakes. Thus Greenland’s ice-sheet contains fifteen times the volume of all the surface water everywhere else in the world outside Antarctica.

(2) Get the water now: Surveying the ice-sheet this summer, NASA satellites run out of the Goddard Center in Maryland found a freakish event: 97 percent of the surface went into melt, the highest fraction found since 1889. No particular need to panic – the ice-sheet is durable, having already survived a peak temperature period during the Inter-glacial Maximum 125,000 years ago; and most of its surface is densely packed snow rather than ice per se, and so more prone to temporary melts. But University of Denmark climatologists’ computer models suggest that an increase of 3 degrees Celsius would be enough to melt it off, halving its volume over the next 500 years and melting it all within 2000 years. Such an event would raise world sea levels by about 24 feet, or 7 meters, and drain about 95 percent of the world’s accessible fresh water into the sea.

http://www.progressive-economy.org/t...50-mil-bottle/