People say that no matter what the debate in the Greenlandic parliament, the politicians always end up talking about fish. Fishing dominates Greenland’s economy, accounting for about 90% of the revenue. This is a bad position to be in, in a changing climate, as the Government of Greenland well knows. And thus, they are looking …
Month: October 2019
Warm winter jackets come out at this time of year. On a busy morning commute, the bus to town could be filled with sixty people, all wearing an expensive down jacket. There can easily be more than twenty thousand dollars worth of fur-lined winter jackets on one bus. On the hands, or in the pockets …
When you sail into Nuuk fjord, it looks big. A wide expanse of water opens out in front of you. But sailing south of Nuuk, unless you looked at the map, you would hardly know that Ameralik Fjord is there. Passing the rocks that curve landward, you wouldn’t know that the rocky hills don’t simply …
“Does Nuuk have a chocolate factory?!” asked my son excitedly, having overheard a conversation between my husband and I. “It’s not that kind of chocolate,” I replied. “Oh,” he said, disappointed, realising what we were talking about. The chocolate factory is the sewage pumping station on the southern end of a peninsula close to the …
*Photo by Peter Mark Jacobsen. See The Fourth Continent. October swings around again, with the prospect of autumn storms, and I am reminded of this photo of a bus stop in Nuuk. It gives you an idea of what the storms can be like. When the wind blows, it tears across the sea, ripping the …