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Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Susan Collins
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Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States’ oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
Bob Ney
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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson
Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722 -Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald) Of Canada.’Laurentian Shield’.
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This is probably the most threatened the Arctic refuge has been since 1960, when it was established as a reserve by President Dwight Eisenhower.
~ Bill Meadows
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” Scott, Message to the Public.
“Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Ernest Shackleton
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“If there really is a pole at the North Pole, I bet there’s some dead explorer-guy with his tongue stuck to it.” Bob Van Voris
“Having climbed a mountain in Antarctica one then starts work; there will be no shaking hands and beaming at each other, for there is no glory on the first ascent of an Antarctic peak — only four to nine hours of great discomfort and frustration standing behind a theodolite waiting for the cloud to lift or the wind to drop so that the observations may be taken.” – Herbert W
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“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.” – Andrew Denton
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“Live Safe or end up like Scott.” — Suggestion at the South Pole Safety Slogan Contest.
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The look on that is horrible and currently, it is going downward. However, we have to stay positive and their is quite a lot of positive news around nowadays as well. With Hopenhagen coming up, the step that is necessary for a more sustainable future can be made.
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