WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.379 Okay, Chelsea, no option on this one. I think 00:00:03.379 --> 00:00:06.599 this is something that should be known by pretty 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.039 much everybody that I don't think anybody really 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.220 has seen yet. Okay. I know this kind of just 00:00:12.220 --> 00:00:15.800 slipped by. It's not that old. So this article 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.859 comes from Reuters on October 14th, 2025. Written 00:00:19.859 --> 00:00:22.579 by, it says Reuters, but that seems like somebody 00:00:22.579 --> 00:00:25.640 who can't write. But that's what it says. Article 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.059 title. Chinese freighters have EU delivery time 00:00:29.059 --> 00:00:32.399 on maiden Arctic voyage to UK. This comes from 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.600 the Beijing office on October 14th of Reuters. 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.299 A Chinese container ship has completed a pioneering 00:00:37.299 --> 00:00:40.159 journey through the Arctic to a UK port, state 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.960 -run news agency Xinhua reported, cutting in 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.140 half the usual transit time for the electric 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:47.659 vehicles and solar panels aboard destined for 00:00:47.659 --> 00:00:50.359 Europe. The Istanbul Bridge's maiden voyage, 00:00:50.619 --> 00:00:52.880 originally expected to take 18 days, was delayed 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.140 by two days due to a storm off the coast of Norway, 00:00:55.299 --> 00:00:57.780 but the ship still reached Europe earlier than 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:00.520 the 40 -50 days it takes freighters going through 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.640 the Suez Canal or around the Cape of Good Hope. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.819 The new northern route, running entirely through 00:01:06.819 --> 00:01:09.439 Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.299 zone, can now be navigated by ships due to global 00:01:12.299 --> 00:01:14.980 warming. china is exploring speedier maritime 00:01:14.980 --> 00:01:17.200 links with the european union the world's third 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.379 largest economy while in the middle of a costly 00:01:19.379 --> 00:01:21.579 trade war with the united states the world's 00:01:21.579 --> 00:01:24.719 biggest consumer market The push reflects Beijing's 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.439 need to diversify its export market to sustain 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.120 growth in an economy heavily dependent on selling 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.859 its manufactured goods overseas. Exports to Europe 00:01:32.859 --> 00:01:36.319 rose an annual 14 % in September. Chinese customs 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.040 data shows while shipments to the US fell 27 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.000 % over the same period. Over the past four decades, 00:01:42.140 --> 00:01:44.879 the Arctic has warmed about four times faster 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.180 than the global average, resulting in a dramatic 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:50.180 reduction in sea ice and creating seasonal windows 00:01:50.180 --> 00:01:52.870 for commercial shipping. but weather and sailing 00:01:52.870 --> 00:01:55.269 conditions along the Arctic Passage can be unpredictable. 00:01:55.650 --> 00:01:57.750 Carrying about 4 ,000 containers from the Chinese 00:01:57.750 --> 00:02:01.049 port of Zhaoshan, the Istanbul Bridge docked 00:02:01.049 --> 00:02:04.010 in Felixstowe? I have no idea. Britain's largest 00:02:04.010 --> 00:02:06.170 container port. How do I have a harder time with 00:02:06.170 --> 00:02:11.189 the English port than the Chinese port? It's 00:02:11.189 --> 00:02:13.949 so tricky. On Monday, Anne was scheduled to make 00:02:13.949 --> 00:02:16.150 stops in Germany, Poland, and Netherlands, and 00:02:16.150 --> 00:02:18.469 Xinhua said, The ship is operated by Chinese 00:02:18.469 --> 00:02:20.930 -controlled container line Sea Legend, it said, 00:02:21.090 --> 00:02:23.310 and the company did not immediately respond to 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:25.370 a Reuters request for comment. In recent years, 00:02:25.449 --> 00:02:28.189 Beijing has deepened maritime cooperation with 00:02:28.189 --> 00:02:30.530 Russia in Arctic waters as China seeks an alternative 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:33.550 shipping route to reduce its dependence on the 00:02:33.550 --> 00:02:36.289 Strait of Malacca in Southeast Asia. Now, Chelsea, 00:02:36.409 --> 00:02:38.370 the reason I wanted to talk about this, because 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:40.729 there's a ton of implications in this. The first 00:02:40.729 --> 00:02:43.870 in... biggest one is that this is a very real, 00:02:43.969 --> 00:02:47.310 very tangible experience of global warming. Yeah, 00:02:47.330 --> 00:02:49.729 it sounds like it. This is something that has 00:02:49.729 --> 00:02:53.069 always been shut off as a way you can ship because 00:02:53.069 --> 00:02:55.669 the sea ice has always been blocking it. I wanted 00:02:55.669 --> 00:02:57.250 to make sure that I wasn't misunderstanding. 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.900 No, that's the biggest thing, like why it's such 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:02.419 a big deal that this has happened. Yeah. But 00:03:02.419 --> 00:03:05.659 geopolitically, this is huge for a bunch of different 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:08.659 reasons. One, if this opens up, all of this is 00:03:08.659 --> 00:03:11.199 going to go through Russian territory, Russian 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.740 Ocean territory, which is huge. Yeah. Is that 00:03:14.740 --> 00:03:17.159 something that people necessarily want right 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.960 now? What is going on politically with Russia 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.639 right now? I guess that's what you're saying. 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:23.460 Well, not necessarily, but this gives Russia 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:26.439 huge power if this is something that China wants 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.259 to explore. And guess what? China does want to 00:03:29.259 --> 00:03:31.800 explore it because pretty much all of its trade 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.900 goes through, like they said, the Strait of Malacca, 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.639 which I think is right beside Singapore. And 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.979 it's like a super narrow area of land that is 00:03:39.979 --> 00:03:42.039 controlled by other countries that could shut 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.610 it off if they wanted to. And not to mention 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:47.449 that, like they said, even if they wanted to 00:03:47.449 --> 00:03:49.469 go the normal route, this is about a third the 00:03:49.469 --> 00:03:52.370 time or a half the time of the normal route to 00:03:52.370 --> 00:03:54.490 get to Europe. Yeah, I mean, when you say it 00:03:54.490 --> 00:03:57.449 that way, I mean, profit over people, right? 00:03:57.550 --> 00:03:59.830 Whatever's the easiest. Everything. It doesn't 00:03:59.830 --> 00:04:02.229 matter what that other word is. Profit over, 00:04:02.289 --> 00:04:05.229 just insert any word you want. Profit over literally 00:04:05.229 --> 00:04:08.569 anything. And it's such an interesting article 00:04:08.569 --> 00:04:11.430 for discussion because not only the politics, 00:04:11.530 --> 00:04:13.849 but obviously global warming. Warming is coming 00:04:13.849 --> 00:04:17.269 into play with it. And I think even environmentally, 00:04:17.509 --> 00:04:21.370 along with global warming, is what is it going 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:24.529 to do to the marine life up there and the oceans 00:04:24.529 --> 00:04:27.930 where it's been basically untouched for how long? 00:04:27.990 --> 00:04:30.269 And what are the implications? It's kind of untouched 00:04:30.269 --> 00:04:31.730 because there's a few things that the Russians 00:04:31.730 --> 00:04:33.350 were doing up there, particularly during the 00:04:33.350 --> 00:04:37.110 Cold War, what's a nuclear subs that have really 00:04:37.110 --> 00:04:40.629 damaged the until now frozen environment. So 00:04:40.629 --> 00:04:42.410 it could be kind of contained, which is cool. 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.300 to be a bit of a disaster we have to talk about 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:47.199 but also too you make a fine point arctic wildlife 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.399 is not used to having to deal with boats so like 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:54.120 the elusive narwhal the unicorn of the sea it's 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.579 never had to battle um i shouldn't say battle 00:04:56.579 --> 00:04:58.819 but it's never had to take up the same space 00:04:58.819 --> 00:05:02.620 as a cargo ship yeah and i even wonder if say 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:05.399 um this might even end up being like the next 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.860 cruise destination that's exactly what i was 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:11.899 thinking yeah the post -arctic cruise i mean 00:05:11.899 --> 00:05:16.180 cruiser yes probably i would not doubt it though 00:05:16.180 --> 00:05:18.620 you won't find a lot of cruises going to russia 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:23.420 right now but cruises equally as much threaten 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:27.870 the marine life just as much as you know, like 00:05:27.870 --> 00:05:30.790 every other ship. Yeah. And if anything, they 00:05:30.790 --> 00:05:32.810 kind of pollute a lot more because they're not 00:05:32.810 --> 00:05:35.089 carrying cargo to take off. They're carrying 00:05:35.089 --> 00:05:42.360 people which come with their own chemical. I 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.540 guess. Yeah, I guess so. They call it gray water. 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.839 I think that's the nice word for it. I mean, 00:05:47.899 --> 00:05:49.720 that's only one of the things that we talked 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.600 about, but yes. Yeah. So, and that's not going 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.660 to help global warming in the least part. And 00:05:56.660 --> 00:06:00.040 I don't know how much it's happened where oceans 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.620 are opening up because of, I know whales were 00:06:02.620 --> 00:06:04.860 being able to hunt in places that they weren't 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:06.920 before that we've covered, but now we're getting 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.519 cargo ships going to places. They're hunting 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.149 in territories they could not hunt. before. Yeah, 00:06:12.250 --> 00:06:16.009 yeah, exactly. So that's also something that's 00:06:16.009 --> 00:06:20.629 pretty new and unique to the situation that an 00:06:20.629 --> 00:06:24.490 implication of global warming as well. So it's 00:06:24.490 --> 00:06:26.649 not going to be great. And it could probably 00:06:26.649 --> 00:06:30.449 even fast track what's already happening to speed 00:06:30.449 --> 00:06:33.930 things up because yeah, and that's even in those 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:36.550 areas. And even without talking about like the 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:38.149 pollution of the cargo ship, that means we're 00:06:38.149 --> 00:06:40.069 one step closer to what's called a blue ocean 00:06:40.069 --> 00:06:42.850 event. where we no longer have ice reflecting 00:06:42.850 --> 00:06:45.930 heat away from the planet, and instead a full 00:06:45.930 --> 00:06:48.949 balloon absorbing all the heat coming to the 00:06:48.949 --> 00:06:51.930 planet, which is a compounding factor that would 00:06:51.930 --> 00:06:55.529 just absolutely exponentially cause more global 00:06:55.529 --> 00:06:58.189 warming. Yeah, which you would assume would fast 00:06:58.189 --> 00:07:02.069 track it if it's already opening up for ships 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:06.600 to go there. Scary stuff. Yeah. And I guess, 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.199 I don't know. Don't think about it too much other 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.220 than, I don't know, maybe the geopolitical sides 00:07:11.220 --> 00:07:13.980 of it. Because yeah, man, we're all kind of fucked. 00:07:14.339 --> 00:07:16.540 Anyhow, you got 48 hours. Don't think about it. 00:07:16.620 --> 00:07:18.819 Bye. Until what? Bye.