Donald Trump's Interest in Purchasing Greenland - Priorities

Best starting location in Pandemic 2 if you can't get Madagascar.

now that the ice melted, there's plenty of possible work to harvest resources

The first is because Greenland is widely believed to be hugely rich in natural resources -- including iron ore, lead, zinc, diamonds, gold, rare earth elements, uranium and oil. And much of it is currently untapped, due to the fact that, well, 80% of the country is covered by an ice sheet. But due to global warming, that ice sheet is melting rapidly -- this summer NASA scientists observed two of the largest melts in the history of Greenland -- and that erosion of the ice sheet is expected to make the mining of Greenland's natural resources more doable.