• The future? Photo: Luigi De Frenza

  Have students take three cards and write (or sketch):
  - how they would like to see Antarctica in the future
  - what they think is possible in the future
  - what they think is probable.
  
• Have them compare their ideas with other members of the class. Who will benefit, and who will lose in each of these possible futures? Compare these with the responses in the expeditioner profiles.

Rocks frozen in ice. Photo: Fred Olivier

ISSUE - Deep Freezer Storage

The Antarctic icecap is a vast freezer with stable subsurface temperatures. Would it be OK to use it to store food surpluses until market prices improve? Some people believe that a technique will be discovered to clone human beings from deep frozen body tissue, or that eventually people could be brought back to life. Could the Antarctic ice sheet be used as a cheap deep freezer for human bodies just in case the technology is developed? (It is not as preposterous as it sounds: not so long ago the Australian Antarctic Division was approached to store sheep carcasses in Antarctica until market conditions improved!)