Jon Gertner

Jon is a journalist and historian who writes for the New York Times Magazine, and has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Wired, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Technology Review and Fast Company. He has written two books, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and The Ice at the End of the World.

The real value of Greenland is in the ice, rather than the minerals

Whoever's flag flies above Greenland, as the ice sheet on world's largest island moves closer to a catastrophic point of no return, we might instead pause to ask whether it really matters who owns it.