Fringey mini: Ice to Meet EU

So here's the deal: I stumbled across this Reuters article about a Chinese freighter that basically said, “Forget the Suez, we're taking the Arctic shortcut.” And boom — delivery times to Europe got sliced ​​in half. Sounds cool, right? Except it's literally too cool, because the only reason this route is even open is global warming melting the ice. Yikes.

In this mini we're talking

• Profit over literally anything — because if there's money to be made, who cares if narwhals get evicted, amiright fellow billionaires?
• Russia's new ocean real estate — spoiler: every ship has to cruise through their backyard now.
• The “blue ocean event” — which sounds like a fun festival but is actually terrifying climate science.
• Cruise ships in the Arctic