I agree with that. When the Arctic Council was set up 18 or 19 years ago there was no discussion about the opening of the Arctic ice. The fact that we were going to have an ice-free Arctic in the next few decades wasn't on the table then.
Do you sense that the greatest concerns throughout the Arctic, by most of the Arctic nations and by the permanent participants, have to do with questions on pollution and the change in the Arctic ice conditions? These things really need to be subject to international agreements.