Antarctica Is Not a Place, It Is an Argument

Nobody lives there, which is precisely why everyone gets to decide what it means.

RLRicky Lanusse14 March 2026 · 14 min

A protest banner reading LA LEY DE GLACIARES NO SE TOCA hung across a parliament dome, glaciers rising in front of it, the whole scene held inside a circle.

A continent with no permanent population is the only kind of place that can be argued about indefinitely, because there is nobody standing on it to contradict you.

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