• superkret@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      In my experience, using it as a dumping ground for anti-social alcoholics

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

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          “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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          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.

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      It’s full of bugs and terrible soil, also looks bigger than it is due to map distortions

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      Hopefully nothing. Hopefully they continue to fuck off and let nature exist unraped up there.