Is Sámi culture at risk from responses to climate change? | Climate Crisis

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How the reindeer-herding Sami peoples of Europe’s far north are combating to protect their historic lifestyle amidst international warming.

The world wants new industries and sources of important uncooked supplies for combatting the ever-worsening local weather disaster.

However for the reindeer-herding Sámi folks of Europe’s distant far north, which is residence to lots of the pure sources key to those inexperienced applied sciences, transitioning to a low-carbon future mustn’t additionally imply jeopardising their centuries-old tradition and traditions.

Their hope is that Sámi parliaments – established after a lot battle to offer a voice to Indigenous inhabitants – will help protect their distinctive lifestyle, by way of strain on the Scandinavian governments in search of to develop the Arctic tundra for everybody’s profit.

However what if safeguarding the Sámi environmental heritage and saving the planet are, in the long run, irreconcilable?