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“It might seem impolitic to embrace what many regard as a looming global catastrophe. But this has not stopped the Russians”. So begins an article in the Abu Dhabi based National about the future of my arctic hometown of Murmansk in the age of global warming. Feted in Soviet times as the largest populated point beyond the Arctic Circle in the world, by the early 90s, it became clear why the decadent West was content to let the USSR keep that distinction unchallenged: it is next to impossib |