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Greenland - Economics and arctic exploration
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Greenland - Economics and arctic exploration

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Greenland has just 57,000 people spread across a territory more than eight times the size of the UK, making it the most sparsely populated place on earth, and an economy still leaning on fish exports and subsidies from Denmark. This film asks whether that can change. Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist sits down for an interview on the autonomous territory's finances and its ambitions to diversify beyond fishing, as mining companies and foreign governments eye mineral deposits that were, until recently, locked under ice. Retreating glaciers are making those deposits reachable, and the film follows the resulting scramble: geologists surveying new ground, officials weighing licenses, and Inuit communities weighing what large-scale extraction would mean for hunting grounds and traditional life. Warming temperatures thread through the whole story, both as the reason the resources are suddenly accessible and as a warning about what that access costs. The film stays close to the economic argument: can Greenland turn its ice into leverage before someone else claims it first.