Keep Santa Out!

The North Pole.

The Netherlands wants it. Canada wants it. The USA wants it. The Russians even flagged it.

Oh yeah, by the way, the Inuit already live in that melting part of the world. Inuit don't own tanks or fighter jets. They don't sit on a vast arsenal of nuclear warheads, so....they're resorting to good ol' fashined diplomacy.

"We must develop, for the sake of my people and the world at large, a formal international process focusing on the Arctic that includes indigenous people having meaningful voices," Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Greenland chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) told an international gathering of politicians, scientists, and religious figures here earlier this month[...]One of ICC's objectives is to keep the Arctic out of the hands of the military and encourage peaceful uses of the North Pole," says Lynge.

By far the most sensible statement about the North Pole region I've heard. Go Inuit for speaking out! Let's keep democratic oversight alive and make sure our pesky leaders listen.

Full article here.
Source: Christian Science Monitor