From Darren Barnes
Your article on the Arctic describes how application of international law might effect peaceful distribution of its untapped resources (6 June, p 6).
Geographical location has never seemed to me to be a legitimate basis for the appropriation of resources and is a barrier to peaceful cohabitation. Instead, the Earth’s resources could be viewed as a single global pool belonging to everyone.
We could calculate how much of each resource should be sustainably extracted each year, based on the Earth’s capacity to regenerate said resource.
An appropriate percentage of the total annual harvest could then be allocated to each nation based on their respective percentage of the global population.
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North Carlton, Lincolnshire, UK
