Frozen Dystopia

More Perfect Union has a short video that provides a decent overview of the real motivations behind the Trump administration’s interest in Greenland: rare earth minerals coveted by the tech industry, a longtime fixation on the territory by Trump ally Ron Lauder (heir to the Estee Lauder fortune), oil, and the radical libertarian fantasy of creating a “network state” city there. This last item has not received much national media attention, possibly because it seems so kooky on the surface, but some very powerful interests are serious about this. This TechCrunch article lays out a CEO’s vision of building a prototype of Elon Musk’s Mars outpost here on Earth.