(Read part 1 in Eesti Elu / Estonian Life issue # 14)
In his address to the UN General Assembly on Feb 6th 2023, Secretary General António Guterres started with the gloomy statement: “We have started 2023 staring down the barrel of a confluence of challenges unlike any in our lifetimes, noting that top scientists and security experts had moved the Doomsday Clock to just 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to signaling the annihilation of humanity”.
And leaving the long northern Arctic coastline in the hands of less than 100 Russian oligarchs adds environmental hazards. Unfortunately, the oligarchs do not intend on reversing course, in fact their development plans aim to increase industrial development, taking advantage of the melting Arctic icepack to form the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk all the way to the Bering Sea to reduce costs of shipping coal, minerals and petrochemicals from the mega industries. Murmansk, Vorkuta, Norilsk, Yakutsk and Irkutsk are already the most polluted cities on earth.
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