U.S. Vice President JD Vance says Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demands Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the Danish territory.
Dude, give it up. Greenland doesn’t like you CF Vance.
Looking at this question through geological lenses it’s quiet simple: they want the resources underneath the ice.
Under the ice there are deposits with quality that is pretty unheard of for todays day and age.
You see during the Bronze ago we humans used up ore deposits that were around 20-40% Copper/Tin, but as we continued needing resources we used those deposits up and started using deposits that only had 1% of resources and so on. If I’m not mistaken we are down to mostly around using deposits that range somewhere around 0.1% of the actual mineral we want.
Here comes the near part about Greenland: There is a lot of ice that made it impossible for any human in history to get to those deposits, even more so to mine them. So once the ice is gone you will provably find deposits of bronze age quality, which is just amazing as mining these things gets like 100 fold easier :D
Oh and also I think the USGS estimated that there are like 30+ Billion barrel of oil under Greenland
Source: I’m doing a bachelors in geology and this was part of one of my lectures, its been a while though so I fear I might have gotten things wrong, not sure though. Please please correct me if I wrote bogus
Looking at this question through geological lenses it’s quiet simple: they want the resources underneath the ice. Under the ice there are deposits with quality that is pretty unheard of for todays day and age. You see during the Bronze ago we humans used up ore deposits that were around 20-40% Copper/Tin, but as we continued needing resources we used those deposits up and started using deposits that only had 1% of resources and so on. If I’m not mistaken we are down to mostly around using deposits that range somewhere around 0.1% of the actual mineral we want. Here comes the near part about Greenland: There is a lot of ice that made it impossible for any human in history to get to those deposits, even more so to mine them. So once the ice is gone you will provably find deposits of bronze age quality, which is just amazing as mining these things gets like 100 fold easier :D Oh and also I think the USGS estimated that there are like 30+ Billion barrel of oil under Greenland Source: I’m doing a bachelors in geology and this was part of one of my lectures, its been a while though so I fear I might have gotten things wrong, not sure though. Please please correct me if I wrote bogus
To add on, it also provides a staging area for whatever Arctic ocean resource conflicts happen in the next 10 years or whatever