Notice on this map that Norway, which has chosen not to join the EU, has an Atlantic EEZ nearly as large as that of the EU, due to its long coast and remote islands. Iceland also has an EEZ that far outsizes the country and the population and also is not part of the EU. Greenland, with just a tiny population of 57,000, has an enormous EEZ. See the book Windfall: the booming business of global warming for a chapter on Greenland's move to independence driven by the promise of wealth from natural resource futures (oil, gas, fish, minerals) to be found in their EEZ and from new land exposed as its massive glaciers slowly melt.
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