Sami people are the people of winter. If the winter disappears it would be really strange.
It's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment.
Usually reindeer can dig through any amount of snow. It can smell the reindeer
moss and find it and dig it. But when there's no melt, this reindeer moss freezes.
The reindeer can't dig it. They they can't even smell it through the ice.
That's starvation then
The Arctic Railway through Rovaniemi to Kirkenes through our very heartlands of
three different Sami language groups in Finland, would would be such
infrastructure which will be the end to the Sami culture.
We live from the nature and it will cut the reindeer grazing areas. There will be more forest logging
for example. It will be transporting oil and gas products from Norway and Russia.
It will bring the mining industry to the Sami homeland area.
It's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment - a concrete one.
Of course climate change is another one but it's not as concrete as the Arctic railway.
The new conditions of course they... people need to learn again.
Some people drown when learning and that's of course a tragedy.
(Even) If the fishermen will adapt, then maybe the fish won't adapt to to warming water.
So my biggest fear is that fish will disappear. We have to be active in this
fight to save our world - to save our reindeers, to save our clean drinking
water and where the fish can can live.
Nature gives if we give back. We can't just take.