Arctic Blue - Machtpoker im schmelzenden Eis

The documentary series makes a compelling statement at the very end: The future of mankind will be decided in the north.

Climate change, aka global warming, will have profound effects on the arctic regions of our planet, and will eventually effect all of us on a global scale. While the director of this two-part documentary couldn't really decide if it's more about the environmental or political aspects, it reflects the complexity of the entire topic: The changing climate will turn the arctic regions from a once uninhabitable world of ice into future accessible zones, contested by a variety of northern countries like Russia, Norway and Canada. Inevitably, it seems, political, military but also economic interests and motivations will collide at a time when unpredictable environmental changes with huge global ramifications loom ahead.

While it's certainly not the best of this kind of documentaries, it highlights critical recent developments with both new challenges and opportunities, but also new potential threats in a place of our world, that for most of us seems too far away to be of any significance.