After extensive oceanic imaging and surveying, the US government was able to make the case for claiming ECS territory in several areas of the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans.
. But, unlike Russia or China, all of the land grabbed in the announcement lies under hundreds feet of water at the bottom of the ocean, so nobody’s going to war over it. At least not yet. In this article, I’ll talk about what was announced and how it will likely lead to both improvements in clean technologies and conflict with other countries in the future.When I say the United States grew, it wasn’t just by a tiny amount.
In this particular case, the issue is the Extended Continental Shelf . It’s easiest to understand a country’s oceanic claims like an onion. On land, a country has full sovereignty. This sovereignty and total control extends out 12 nautical miles beyond the shore. After that, a country has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles, where they don’t control who’s allowed to pass through, but do keep control over the extraction of economic resource .
But clean technologies also have a lot to gain from these expansions into the seafloor. In the Arctic alone, there are vast unexploited reserves of rare earth minerals, wind energy, tidal energy, and geothermal resources. Elsewhere in the Arctic, Russia already extracts 40% of the world’s palladium, 20% of global diamonds, 15% of the platinum, 11% of the cobalt, about a tenth of global nickel, as well as almost equal shares of tungsten and zinc.
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