Antarctic Exploitation

Ice? ?? There are few, if any, resources in Antarctica that the world could even use, and the ones that are in demand that are found in frickin Antarctica could probably be found somewhere else unless penguins are considered a resource that can be "mined My point is, Antarctica doesnt have much resources to offer, and those we can use we can find somewhere much closer. "" my attack on your opinion: theyre are many resources we can get out of Antarctica. fact one of the largest holders of fresh water, 90% of the world's ice. over the next few decades the would is going to experience a shortage in fresh water. by the year 2030, the population of the world will reach 8 billion. fresh water will become rare and this could lead to war. but if we use the fresh water ice in Antarctica this may not be a problem. you see 70% of the world fresh water is located in Antarctica (in ice form). many types of minerals which are important elsewhere on Earth cannot be expected in Antarctica, VOTERS WE MUST REMOVE THE BAN IN ORDER TO SATIETY OUR WAY OF LIVING. .. . i will explain this the next round -2- You claim that populations are expected to be 12 billion by 2020, which is an outrageous lie. World populations are only expected to reach 7.6 billion by 2020, not 12 billion. In fact we arent projected to reach 12 billion until at least 2050. .. You can see in the last link that most of the human population growth will occur in developing countries, a majority of them in Africa. But these countries are too poor to be able to open up mining operations in Antarctica to mine enough resources and bring such resources back to their own shores, meaning that the ban shouldn't be lifted for resource exploitation since the countries that would need those resources to support surging populations are too poor to open up such operations. -2- my attack: my point is the population of the world is rising fast. . your source prove you right on my inaccuracy of the worlds population in 2020. . but my main point is the worlds population is rising fast and in order to prevent war over water from out breaking we need use Antarctica as a water source and remove the ban. -3-Most importantly, the reason those bans on mining are in place are to preserve the environment of the Antarctic continent, one of the largest unblemished parts of the world still in its natural state that the world had agreed would only be inhabited for scientific study. Lifting the ban would allow corporations to completely trash the environment to exploit a very small amount of resources that could be found elsewhere. Lets pretend the ban was lifted, oil was found, and a corporation started drilling it there. Well that oil could only head back to the country of origin by ship, and if an oil spill were to occur in an environment as vulnerable as Antarctica's and as far away from rescue groups and containment teams as possible, the risk for environmental damage and catastrophe skyrocket. The ban on mining in Antarctica should stay in place because there may not be any resources there to exploit, populations are not growing at an alarming rate, the places where populations are exploding are too poor to take advantage of Antarctic resources, and the mining operations would do a great deal of damage to the precious environment of Antarctica. MY ATTACK: Oil and gas exploration should be allowed, both on the Antarctic continent and in the southern ocean surrounding it. Although current technology would not enable exploitation of any reserves at economic prices, future technological advances and rises in the price of fossil fuels may change this equation. Once, deep water extraction from the hostile North Sea or Arctic Oceans seemed impossible, but now these are taken for granted. Our prosperity depends upon cheap energy from fossil fuels, and it would be wrong to risk this by an arbitrary decision to declare the Antarctic off-limits to exploration, especially given the continuing scepticism of many about claims of global warming. we should lift the ban on mining and using antarctic resources ""The ban on mining in Antarctica should stay in place because there may not be any resources there to exploit, populations are not growing at an alarming rate, the places where populations are exploding are too poor to take advantage of Antarctic resources, and the mining operations would do a great deal of damage to the precious environment of Antarctica. "" my opposition went out of his way to correct me on my inaccuracy of the expected population in 2020, but fails to notice that Antarctica is the last great "pristine" continent sitting at the bottom of our world and that Antarctica is loaded with natural resources/minerals. Please consider this and vote for me please. i would like to thank my opposition and voters for reading my opinion question to opposition: NOTHING TO DO WITH DEBATE! !! this has nothing to do with the debate . .. im sorry for this. .. uhhh i was wondering how one would bold letters when writing a post on this debate site. .. thank you