“Even if the state or the government or the EU says it is important to have minerals, at the same time, Indigenous rights, Sami rights, the local[s] are just as important. We also need nature.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/sep/07/reindeer-and-rare-earth-minerals-swedish-politicians-take-aim-at-indigenous-sami-in-mining-dispute
Can't have a Green Transition without Green Sacrifice Zones. And who better to sacrifice than the Sami; the last of the European Indigenous. If the answer to a better world is more mining, then something is seriously wrong.
Gerry McGovern
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