Who Owns Antarctica? (Bizarre Borders Part 3)
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Antarctica, home to the south pole(s),penguins, and about 5000 people during the summers,but less than 1000 during the ever dark winter.No one lives on the continent permanently,so, who owns Antarctica?Most stuff outside national borders, the sea floor, the moon,really all of space, is the common heritage of mankind.It belongs to none of us and all of us, held in trust for future generations.Which is nice, if perhaps a bit presumptiveto say that the entire universe is ours,and maybe someone will have something to say about that eventually,story for another time, but still.Well done humanity.Except, it's never that simple.Because the paperwork on Antarctica sort of says common heritage of mankind,but it doesn't go all in.Here's why. Explorers started land...
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Antarctica, home to the south pole(s),penguins, and about 5000 people during the summers,but less than 1000 during the ever dark winter.No one lives on the continent permanently,so, who owns Antarctica?Most stuff outside national borders, the sea floor, the moon,really all of space, is the common heritage of mankind.It belongs to none of us and all of us, held in trust for future generations.Which is nice, if perhaps a bit presumptiveto say that the entire universe is ours,and maybe someone will have something to say about that eventually,story for another time, but still.Well done humanity.Except, it's never that simple.Because the paperwork on Antarctica sort of says common heritage of mankind,but it doesn't go all in.Here's why. Explorers started land...
