Greenland Thaw and Nuclear Waste Appall Robert Macfarlane in Underland

Summary: Greenland thaw of ice caps and inland, offshore icebergs and nuclear waste from a military base appall Robert Macfarlane in Underland: A Deep Time Journey.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Ice-capless land and freshwater-meltwatered land and sea from Greenland thaw; nuclear waste from diesel fuel-loaded, mobile nuclear generator-launched Camp Century, pollutants from open-pit mining of copper, diamond, gold, nickel, ruby deposits and of radioactive uranium-allied rare-earth minerals aggrieve Robert Macfarlane in Underland: A Deep Time Journey. The 2019 publication alludes to Greenland animal and plant life affected by aggressed land and water ambiances even as it nowhere approaches the Greenland-signature animal, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus); "Greenland Shark Squalus borealis Scymnus borealis Dalatias microcephalus," 1877 illustration, in Jonathan Couch, History of the Fishes of the British Islands (MDCCCLXVIII [1877]), vol. I, Plate XIII, between pages 56 and 57: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Greenland thaw of its ice caps and icebergs and nuclear waste from a military base appall Robert Macfarlane in Underland: A Deep Time Journey into England, Finland, France, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Slovenia.

The Finland, Greenland, Norway section, Part III Haunting (The North), boasts Chapters 10 The Blue of Time (Kulusuk, Greenland) and 11 Meltwater (Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland). The two afore-considered chapters respectively commence and conclude on page 327 and page 366 and on page 367 and page 394 even as page 14 counts. Pages 11 through 19 deliver the first chapter, Descending, and domiciles page 14 even as the latter page details the Macfarlane book’s first Greenland-derived description page.

The world-enormousest island enshrines a northwest-established military base whose ice-cap entombment (1959-1967) entails 100,000-plus gallons (378,541.178-plus liters) of chemical contaminants emerging surface-ward in the 21st century.

Page 394 furnishes finish lines for facts Greenlandic even as the Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quarternary Stratigraphers features Anthropocene- and nuclear-ages co-launching 1950.

The film Greenland gauges the afore-given Unitedstatesian military base as guardian of those who get away from comet Clarke’s 75-percent kill rate against all planet-Earth life. The 2020-released Unitedstatesian apocalyptic survival disaster thriller film honors Thule Air Base even as International Movie Data Base (IMDB) hails Robins Air Force Base filming-site locations. The afore-identified base in Atlanta, Georgia, includes underground itineraries even as the film Greenland invokes them, albeit inaccurately, for comet-impelled emergency-sheltering inhabitants in Thule Air Base.

Robert Macfarland in Underland: A Deep Time Journey judges Greenland thaw of ice caps and inland, offshore icebergs as jeopardizing nuclear waste at a military base.

Thule Air Base (Greek Θούλη, “north[-ern-island]” via Latin Thūlē), known as Pituffik Space Base (Greenlandic pituffik, “the place the dogs are attached”), keepsakes nothing Camp-Century nuclear-like.

World-first mobile nuclear generator-launched Camp Century, as 2-mile (3.218688-kilometer) underground town, lodges accommodations for 200 soldiers and laboratories, a chapel, a cinema, a hospital, a shop. Unitedstatesian military soldiers in 1967 moved away the nuclear-generator reaction chamber, not its infrastructure, not such biological, chemical, radioactive waste as diesel fuel and PCB pollutants. Pentagon closure reports note non-toxic, toxic Camp Century “preserved for eternity” (Macfarlane:330) in the perpetual-snow north even as summer 2016 niches Greenland-highest ice-cap losses northwesterly, southeasterly.

Greenland thaw and nuclear waste occupy Robert Macfarlane in Underland: A Deep Time Journey even as the former occasions the latter in iceberg, icecap, snow-fall meltwater.

Melt-doubled rates push ice-capless Camp-Century and open-pit-, radioactive-uranium-mined lands upward even as sea-freshening meltwater punishes cod, gray-gull, orca-whale, pink-footed geese, porpoise, red-throated-diver, ringed-seal, seagull, sea-whale salt-watering.

Ice-cap, iceberg, snow-fall melts quicker than their accumulation quarrels with Arctic-fox, polar-bear, ptarmigan-, raven-, sanderling-quartering lands even as their flowing and standing waters question Arctic vegetation. Risen land from reduced, relinquished ice and snow from rising temperatures perhaps reject, remove bilberry, club moss, cotton-grass, crisp lettuce, dwarf willow, map lichens, rock lichens. Flowing and standing meltwater suffers seasonal-sojourning gnats and mosquitoes even as temperature-softened land suggests white-cross-cemetery burials, unlike traditional bodies at cave bottoms or under stone piles.

Greenland thaw; nuclear waste; trashed kayaks, melamine cupboards, plastic crates, refrigerators trouble Robert Macfarlane, who treasures black-mica, white-quartz rock-sand beaches, in Underland: A Deep Time Journey.

Nuclear waste above-ground arises from an abandoned below-ground Arctic Unitedstatesian military scientific research base 127 miles (205 kilometers) east-northeast of the current Unitedstatesian Pituffik Space Base. Camp Century (1959-1967) no longer arms itself with the nuclear-generator reaction chamber even as it still arms itself with non-nuclear and nuclear infrastructure and with such animal-, people-, place-, plant-unamicable arrangements as biological, chemical, nuclear wastes that assemble accessibly diesel fuel, PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and radioactive coolant; "Schematic layout of Camp Century," in Elmer F. Clark, Camp Century: Evolution of Concept and History of Design, Construction, and Performance (U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Report No. 174; DTIC Number AD4777061965-10; October 1965; Figure 26, page 34, black-and-white graphic of "Camp Century -- Plan View," with colors added by Zygerth/Wikimedia talk/contribs, according to 07:50 screenshot in "Arctic Underground Base Camp Century Greenland US Army: The Story of Camp Century, The City Under Ice," declassified U.S. Army film, Research and Development Progress Report no. 6: CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

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Ice-capless land and freshwater-meltwatered land and sea from Greenland thaw; nuclear waste from diesel fuel-loaded, mobile nuclear generator-launched Camp Century, pollutants from open-pit mining of copper, diamond, gold, nickel, ruby deposits and of radioactive uranium-allied rare-earth minerals aggrieve Robert Macfarlane in Underland: A Deep Time Journey. The 2019 publication alludes to Greenland animal and plant life affected by aggressed land and water ambiances even as it nowhere approaches the Greenland-signature animal, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus); "Greenland Shark Squalus borealis Scymnus borealis Dalatias microcephalus," 1877 illustration, in Jonathan Couch, History of the Fishes of the British Islands (MDCCCLXVIII [1877]), vol. I, Plate XIII, between pages 56 and 57: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/7555985036/;
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Nuclear waste above-ground arises from an abandoned below-ground Arctic Unitedstatesian military scientific research base 127 miles (205 kilometers) east-northeast of the current Unitedstatesian Pituffik Space Base. Camp Century (1959-1967) no longer arms itself with the nuclear-generator reaction chamber even as it still arms itself with non-nuclear and nuclear infrastructure and with such animal-, people-, place-, plant-unamicable arrangements as biological, chemical, nuclear wastes that assemble accessibly diesel fuel, PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and radioactive coolant; "Schematic layout of Camp Century," in Elmer F. Clark, Camp Century: Evolution of Concept and History of Design, Construction, and Performance (U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Report No. 174; DTIC Number AD4777061965-10; October 1965; Figure 26, page 34, black-and-white graphic of "Camp Century -- Plan View," with colors added by Zygerth/Wikimedia talk/contribs, according to 07:50 screenshot in "Arctic Underground Base Camp Century Greenland US Army: The Story of Camp Century, The City Under Ice," declassified U.S. Army film, Research and Development Progress Report no. 6: CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_Century_layout_color.png;
, Unclassified, via U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library @ https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/4529/;
"Arctic Underground Base Camp Century Greenland US Army: The Story of Camp Century, The City Under Ice," declassified U.S. Army film, Research and Development Progress Report no. 6: Arctic Underground Base Camp Century Greenland US Army, Public Domain Mark 1.0, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/TheU.S.ArmysTopSecretArcticCityUnderTheIceCampCenturyRestoredClassifiedFilm;
U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Technical Report No. 174, Unclassified, via USACE Digital Library @ https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/4529/;
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0477706/page/34/mode/1up

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