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DoomsdaysCW<p>What happens to the world if <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> stop absorbing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a>? Ask <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalSinks</span></a> of forests and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peat</span></a> were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGases</span></a> than it stores</p><p>"The number of dying trees also increased in recent years as forests are stressed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> and high temperatures. In south-east Finland, the number of dying trees has risen rapidly, increasing 788% in just six years between 2017 and 2023, and the amount of standing deadwood – decaying trees – is up by about 900%."</p><p>by Patrick Greenfield, Inari, Finland</p><p>"Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inari</span></a>, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.</p><p>"'I have spoken with many old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,' says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FinnishSami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinnishSami</span></a> parliament.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorealForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorealForests</span></a> here in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sami</span></a> homeland take so long to grow that even small, stunted trees are often hundreds of years old. It is part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Taiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiga</span></a> – meaning “land of the little sticks” in Russian – that stretches around the far northern hemisphere through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Siberia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scandinavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scandinavia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>. </p><p>"It is these forests that helped underpin the credibility of the most ambitious carbon-neutrality target in the developed world: Finland’s commitment to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonNeutral</span></a> by 2035.</p><p>"The law, which came into force two years ago, means the country is aiming to reach the target 15 years earlier than many of its EU counterparts.</p><p>"In a country of 5.6 million people with nearly 70% covered by forests and peatlands, many assumed the plan would not be a problem.</p><p>"For decades, the country’s forests and peatlands had reliably removed more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But from about 2010, the amount the land absorbed started to decline, slowly at first, then rapidly. By 2018, Finland’s land sink – the phrase scientists use to describe something that absorbs more carbon than it releases – had vanished."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DyingTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DyingTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image</p><p>By Martine Aamodt Hess </p><p>March 13, 2023</p><p>"On March 1, global media outlets reported that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> had been arrested in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oslo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oslo</span></a> while protesting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WindTurbines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindTurbines</span></a>. It wasn’t that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivist</span></a> had suddenly taken a stand against renewable energy. Rather, she had joined forces with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> standing up for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> ’s plea to be able to continue practicing their culture in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fosen</span></a>, central <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>. For hundreds of years, this land has been home to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReindeerHerders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReindeerHerders</span></a> — an important tradition, which helps preserve the Sámi’s endangered language. Yet today, the siting in Fosen of wind turbines, which frighten the reindeer, puts its continuation in doubt.</p><p>"Some five hundred days ago, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>’s supreme court ruled that the turbines are a violation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> under international conventions. Yet they are still running even now — and indeed, even after the ebbing of the short-lived news attention surrounding Thunberg’s role in the protest. Once again, the Norwegian government has proven that it remains indifferent to Sámi lives.</p><p>"'What’s happening in Norway doesn’t surprise me — [there’s] this double standard of working to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> groups around the world and presenting itself as this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>progressive</span></a> nation, yet not giving a shit about the indigenous people living within its own borders,' Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi tells me. Between reindeer herding and her studies, the twenty-two-year-old is the leader of the Sámi Parliament’s youth committee and is a board member of the Norwegian Sámi Association youth group. During the recent eight days of protest in Oslo, she stood arm in arm with her Sámi sisters and brothers. “We are used to it but that doesn’t make it any less unjust. It’s about time Norway drops the mask. It’s about time the rest of the world sees Norway for what it really is,' she says.</p><p>"From the outside looking in, the Scandinavian country is often seen as a progressive social democracy. But — as Elle’s comments suggest — a story far less told is that of its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> past, also striking at indigenous people in Norway itself."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sami-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2023/03/norway-sam</span><span class="invisible">i-indigenous-people-reindeer-herding-wind-turbines-dispossession-protest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Assimilation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SamiPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamiPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SamiResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamiResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a></p>