• ngwoo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Resource extraction. Lots of mining, oil further west, logging everywhere south of the arctic circle

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        3 months ago

        “BWAHAHAHAHA! And then they said that the earth isn’t for me to ruin and extract every scrap from so I can buy more private islands! Can you believe that nonsense?”

        -Richfuck Ownerson

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        2 months ago

        Pretty much. White people didn’t move up there en mass because there was no farmland. That doesn’t mean we don’t show up when there’s something of actual intrinsic value, though. Like the diamonds around Yellowknife, which is the one thing in the North you could call a city.

        Up on the arctic coast it’s like the Europeans never arrived, if you imagine they developed rifles and skidoos independently.