Schwedens Bergbauindustrie bedroht die Lebensweise der indigenen Sami
https://theconversation.com/swedens-mining-industry-is-threatening-the-indigenous-sami-peoples-way-of-life-268344
Von Ok-Law-3268
Schwedens Bergbauindustrie bedroht die Lebensweise der indigenen Sami
https://theconversation.com/swedens-mining-industry-is-threatening-the-indigenous-sami-peoples-way-of-life-268344
Von Ok-Law-3268
26 Kommentare
tough?
The mining products are quite useful for people’s way of life
To be fair, sami people will extract whatever compensation they can get, they don’t care about tradition.
Is reindeer husbandry a profitable ‚way of live‘ or is it something kept alive by EU agricultural subsidies?
I mean I’m not against it, but if people want to keep their reindeer, pickups and snowmobiles for future generations then someone else has to pay the taxes that will cover the costs for a romanticized herding business.
Keep mining and ignore them
There’s less than 50 000 sami people in Sweden and 100 000km² of swedish lapland. I think they can coexist with mining.
Sapmi people are professional victim players though. Dealing with them is always a headache.
You may wonder what will be left if Europe doesn’t get independent on this. But it will take 10 year and 10 years of resolve…
Another question is: How much are Sami locally fixed.
[From the 18th and especially the 19th century, ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people)the governments of Norway and Sweden started to assert sovereignty more aggressively in the north, and targeted the Sámi with Scandinavization policies aimed at **forced assimilation from the 19th century.**
From 1913 to 1920, the Swedish race-segregation political movement created a race-based biological institute that collected research material from living people and graves. Throughout history, Swedish settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.
In 1913, the Norwegian parliament passed a bill on „native act land“ to allocate the best and most useful lands to Norwegian settlers.
Their ’Way of life’ is herding reindeer that no one wants to buy, using tax money.
Oh boo hoo
What „indigenous way of life“? Herding with helicopters? Sleeping in regular houses instead of a tent in the middle of nowhere? Buying clothes made in Asia like the rest of us? Having access to and using all the amenities of a modern society?
A lot of unflaired or non-Sweden flaired people have strong feelings about this, apparently.
I don’t really care to subsidize the reindeer larping. Aside from tourists locations attractions this is best left in the past.
Are ethnic Swedes not indigenous to Sweden too?
Legit question, I know little of Sweden.
The sami always have raindeer right where someone wants to build something that is going to generate jobs for the other 98% of the population in the north of Sweden.
It’s a grift.
The nimbyism of protesting against mines in the vast northern emptiness of Sweden is not helping anyone. It’s a shame we became so dependent on china instead.
What’s up with all the city people in these comments thinkign they know anything about reindeer herding, arctic life and such?
There are 5000 reindeer herders in sweden, they have special rights to roughly half the country to herd their reindeers (area about the size of UK). I think they are fine.
Not mining is threatening our way of life when China invades Taiwan and we can’t do jack shit because they control all resources
massively overblown by a couple rich elite sami that does not represent the rest
It’s the question of chicken vs egg, isn’t it?
At least in Finland the Samis have claimed ownership of land areas that were not theirs to begin with.
Finns put up with their reindeer (there’s way too many) destroying much of nature, along with the „traditional“ way of herding them with motored vehicles (again, damage to nature).
They have also started to make claims about being the only natives here, despite the fact that both Samis and Finns came here around the same time.
This story appears once every so often. The Sami have industrialised reindeer breeding and herding and don’t want anyone encroaching on that scheme.
We’re fiercely anti-racist in Sweden. We do everything right and we wan’t you to know it.
Unless we’re talking about taking land from the sami. Then we DGAF
We have as much right to the land as the Sami, and right now the mining is way more in our interest than their rennäring.
there was literally mining in Sweden for thousands of years before reindeer herding existed. As a practice it only dates from the 1st millennium AD (as distinct from reindeer hunting).
Man so many capitalists in the comments reasoning capitalistically in terms of jobs.
There is also a solution that gives access to mining resources without disrupting ecosystems and landscape and that’s non invasive mining. Now that’s costly, experimental and based onto automation. But it can be done.
So we get the resources, we don’t take land away (beause we dig under it, not into it) and everyone is happy.
Of course.. yeah.. you need to change economic system for that.
Hmmm