What Is Really at Stake at the North Pole? With Neil Shea
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. As the ice retreats at the top of the world, a new geopolitical frontier is emerging. From renewed Russian militarisation in the Arctic to China's ambitions as a near-Actic power, and even talk in Washington of strategic control over Greenland, who will shape the future of the North Pole and what is really at stake? On today's episode, journalist and author Neil Shay joins us to discuss how the Arctic is becoming both an ecological front line and a geopolitical battleground, drawing global superpowers northwards even as the region's wildlife and indigenous communities face unprecedented change.
Let's join our host, Helen Chersky, now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Professor Helen Cersky. And today our guest is Neil Shay. He has had a
Very exciting career. For 20 years he's written for National Geographic. He's reported from around the world on a huge range of topics on conflict, climate change and cultural change. And we are here to talk about his first book, which is Frostlines, that gathers a lot of storytelling from lots of different trips to the Arctic into a narrative around the top of the world. It's
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