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The Jakobshavn Icefjord in Ilulissat, Greenland. Photo by Rob Reynolds<\/p>\nThe Jakobshavn Icefjord in Ilulissat, Greenland. Photo by Rob Reynolds<\/p>\n
The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman<\/a>\u00a0is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen below and subscribe for free on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you get podcasts.<\/p>\n When President Trump threatened to annex Greenland earlier this year, the vast Arctic island with a population slightly larger than Burlington was dragged from the periphery of world affairs to the center. The threat that the U.S. might forcibly take Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, threatened to unravel the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.<\/p>\n How did Greenland become a geopolitical flash point? What is the experience of traveling through its frozen landscape? And what may be next for the island\u2019s peoples?<\/p>\n On this Vermont Conversation, I talked with two people with first-hand experience in Greenland. Vermont journalist Adam Federman<\/a> has traveled and reported on Greenland for The New Republic<\/a> and In These Times<\/a>. Federman, who lives near Middlebury, is Reporting Fellow with Type Investigations<\/a>. Rob Reynolds<\/a> is a Los Angeles-based artist who has travelled extensively with scientists in the Arctic gathering images that are currently part of an exhibit called Zero Celsius at Mad River Valley Arts<\/a>. Reynolds will participate in a public conversation with author Bill McKibben in Waitsfield on March 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Arctic is warming faster than any place else on Earth, and some projections indicate that the Arctic Ocean could have ice-free summers as early as 2030. This will have global ramifications as sea levels rise and inundate low-lying population centers, and new shipping corridors open up.<\/p>\n These climate-driven changes could lead to \u201cthe prospect of open military conflict in a part of the world that has been spared. I find that terrifying,\u201d said Federman. The race to exploit natural resources in previously inaccessible landscapes \u201chas tremendously dangerous implications for the people who live in that part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n For Rob Reynolds, Greenland is \u201ca place of wonder. It\u2019s a place of awe. It\u2019s a place unlike any other that I\u2019ve ever been to.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that that is most staggering to me about Trump\u2019s almost provocative light hearted threat to take Greenland by force \u2026 is that people live there. And the great lesson that Greenland has to teach us is that conservation is something that we should be thinking about. We shouldn\u2019t be thinking about taking it. We should be thinking about keeping it frozen.\u201d<\/p>\n Federman said that Trump\u2019s Greenland provocations are \u201ca new form of imperialism.\u201d That has unexpectedly led to \u201cgreater indigenous power in this part of the world.\u201d Greenland\u2019s parliament \u201chas clearly rejected the notion that the United States could somehow come in and take over.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s taken many, many years, but Greenland does now have a seat at the table and cannot be ignored.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jakobshavn Icefjord in Ilulissat, Greenland. 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