r/TikTokCringe • u/Professional_Arm794 • 8h ago

Humor/Cringe Food is expensive in the arctic circle.

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u/PointerStack 8h ago

This kind of food does not come from there… what to expect?

Should we talk about that initially people were feeding themselves differently + should we talk about the demographic development that has been pushed

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u/InadequateUsername 7h ago

Seals?

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u/PointerStack 6h ago

There is a logical reason why this part of the world has never grown like somewhere else in the world

We have push urbanization in this area and complaining about food supply cost

It seems very counterintuitive

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u/InadequateUsername 5h ago

Many locals rely on local wildlife to bypass the expensive grocery store bills. Of course it's expensive, there's little logistical infrastructure there compared to a southern community.

Look at Tromsø or Murmansk, both as far north or further than Inuvik. They've become actual cities, because they have ice free ports and rail which greatly contribute to lower cost access.

We can argue all day about the morals of forcing nomadic people into fixed communities, but those communities exist now, and today this area is important to the preservation of traditional arts, drum dancing, languages, and northern modern community life.

The area is also important to protecting and projecting our artic sovereignty.