Up Here Magazine – Every so often, someone proposes an idea so good – an idea that dovetails so closely with your own thinking, or what you should have been thinking – that you smack yourself for not pitching it first. So it is with the recent talk of turning the North Pole into an international park. I can’t believe I haven’t been advocating this all along. Now, I am. The idea’s probably been around for decades, but in Canada it shot onto the radar recently when it was championed by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Hilary Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, has started suggesting something similar. And for a better sense of what an Arctic park might be like, Clinton suggests we cast our sights south, to Antarctica, which is governed by the Antarctic Treaty.

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