Part of the appeal of coming to the north of Greenland, I have no qualms in saying, was to discover the remnants of a way of life that might be labelled “exotic”. However, it would be misleading to suggest that all the Polar Eskimos here belong to a culture which could be called “hunter-gatherer”. Nowadays, the majority of the people in Qaanaaq live as we do with more or less the same amenities. Seventy-two people own a hunting licence in the Thule region and most of those are part-time hunters.
The number of hunters travelling by dog-sledge across the frozen sea in search of sea mammals is therefore tiny and represents an insignificant threat to wildlife. Their traditional way of life is vanishing not because of global warming, but because the Self-Rule Government has caved in to the pressure and threats of environmentalist groups.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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The big question from that article is, what does “living in balance with nature” mean?
I have no problem with the question. It is just that most environmentalists seem to have a very simplistic notion of how to answer it. Technology for instance, can both be dirty and be a means to live more lightly. But environmentalists seem to only see one side. We can’t even get a balanced line of reasoning on one issue, let alone all live in balance with nature.