Some have disparaged President Donald Trump’s ambition to buy Greenland. Here are some reasons in its favor.
Notwithstanding the natural resources there, including coal, which we could burn more freely, Greenland has empty space. For the United States, which is full (you may find it hard to believe looking around, but somebody owns all those woodlands), this is where we could put those invaders from Ecuador who insist on seeking asylum.
And it’s cool up there. Climate change may be a hoax, but palm trees could really be coming to Concord (the parts that will still be above sea level) along with alligators and killer bees.
People will need to get away to where they can play golf and not get eaten alive. Greenland’s present population can barely provide workers to maintain the fairways, let alone the casinos. Enter the Ecuadorians. We let them in if they agree to work for a fur coat and subsistence wages in our new province. It will be win-win.
Reports are that Greenlanders are unwilling. This should be no impediment. Firstly, they are so few that we could offer everyone more money than they make in a year. If that’s not enough we could just say, as we did with the Virgin Islands, which we also wrested from Denmark: Take the money and sign or get invaded.
The U.N. may kick but what are they going to do, really? It may seem ugly, but this is the way real estate works.
PHIL MORSE
Wilmot