It's frightening enough to hear estimates among international scientists that our polar caps could melt away within the next decade, but when you add politics and greed to the mix, it gets even worse.
The Greenhouse Effect on Arctic and Antarctic ice means that natural resources formerly hidden away and protected by the frozen elements will be accessible.
Already countries are getting their ducks, or in this case penguins, in a row on this.
Britain has announced it plans to map its property around the Antarctic and in the Speech from the Throne, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made it clear he wants to beef up Canada's military to, among other things, strengthen our sovereignty in the north.
Of course it wouldn't hurt our government or others if these newly mapped areas were rich in oil.
The fact that we are losing unknown numbers of species of animals and plant life due to climate change is horrific. What makes it worse is that we don't know what these great losses will mean to our planet.
Being human doesn't make us immune to the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming, no matter how arrogantly we try to elevate ourselves above other life forms on this Earth.
So in our haste to claim sovereignty over the North, would it not be prudent to ensure that these wondrous, fragile regions also be protected, nurtured and nursed back to health from the sicknesses we have released upon them?
Oil doesn't perpetuate life on our planet, life does.
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