There will be a huge backlog compared to other countries around the North Pole. In addition, there will be a depopulation of the north, since people in the north would want to leave their region to go south, which would pose a huge structural problem in terms of northern sovereignty, because we have to have resources there.
Choosing not to know what's going on is like putting a blindfold on your eyes and plugs in your ears, and hoping that things will be okay. Yet, according to the information we currently have, they won't.