Why shoul Antarctica be preserved

There is no good reason to preserve Antarctica, except sentimental ones,

like "tradition" ... the notion that just because it has always been there, it

should remain there. There are many sound reasons for taking advantage

of everything it has to offer, without getting hung up on preserving it.

Antarctica is a huge area, with very few animals and zero people living there.

Using only a little bit of our many modern technologies of mass destruction,

the animals could easily and quickly be obliterated, leaving a totally empty

continent that could house a large fraction of the Earth's teeming population,

giving them a clean place to live, with plenty of fresh air, away from the filth,

squalor, and congestion of their home neighborhoods. And totally unlike the

places where they grew up, there would be plentiful fresh water available for

every individual, just waiting for each person to simply go out and take a slice

at a time, whenever he needed some, and melt it. There could be living space

for everyone, water for everyone, jobs for everyone, without ever the fear of

an unexpected heat wave, thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, or flood.

At the same time, the riches that are right under their feet could be tapped

and exploited ... Who knows how much oil, gold, coal, natural gas, and

countless other mineral resources lie there under Antarctica? Such a

vast wealth of riches, so conveniently located, waiting to be pillaged for

the common good of everyone!

Conservation and preservation are all right, in their place, but not when

they stand in the way of so much benefit to so many people. With vast

numbers of people migrated and settled in Antarctica, the selfish notion

of preservation would rapidly become hazardous to healthy economic

growth, just as it always has in so many other places in the past. Such

a narrow policy must not be allowed to prevail. The continent was placed

there for our convenience, pleasure and profit, and we should not be

prevented from taking advantage of it by a bunch of iceberg huggers and

penguin lovers, who probably actually only want it for themselves so that

they can use it to grow their drugs, marry within their gender, and turn their

music up loud, with none of us patriots around to see it.

Because it contains loads and loads of ice - It's the second largest region in the world, only being surpassed by Russia. And all of that contains some level of ice. Imagine all that ice going in to the oceans. It would cause high rises in sea level, causing major flooding of low-lying areas.

Furthermore, being so large, it's home to many species of animal, which depend on the habitat to survive. So changing the habitat would result in extinction of species living in the area