| Summary: | Technology has been complicit in the erosion of the Arctic environment and ecosystem. It has accelerated global warming and climate change to a great extent globally and regionally in the Arctic. Rachel Carson???s Silent Spring, which gave birth to the environmental revolution in the 1970???s, and Theodor W. Adorno???s and Max Horkheimer???s Dialectic of Enlightenment, which reveals the unexpected consequences of the Enlightenment through the domination of nature, domination of others, and domination of the self, will be utilized to achieve a clarification and proposition for the phenomenon found in the globalization of ecocide in regards to the Arctic region. Through a qualitative content analysis research methodology of news articles, peer-review journals, and books relating to research on the Arctic region, globalization, and ecocide, raw data has been collected and condensed into categories which fundamentally include globalization and modern technologies, global warming and climate change, air and water pollution, Arctic vegetation and fauna, Arctic indigenous populations, and social movements and green policies. I will discuss and elaborate the problem of globalization, particularly the technology utilized, and how it can be blamed for ecocide in the Arctic. I will also mention both the systems and populations consequently affected. Suggestions in saving and regenerating the damages caused to the arctic environment by modern technology have been noted by focusing on green energy policies and social movements with a possible collaboration with ally organizations and or nations.
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