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My Tiny Hometown in the Arctic Is Becoming a Hub for Disaster Capitalism
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Every comment here so far proves that the "southern metaphor" is alive and well ... where people from urban areas think they know best what should happen in remote regions.
Maybe you all should spend a year living in Alaska to learn what it's like to have southerners tell you how you should live.
I lived in North Pole, Alaska and watched as every business bordered up and the population decreased drastically.
People want public services but refuse to pay for them through taxes. Now they drive an hour to get groceries, but in the winter they are Isolated with no access to food, water, emergency services. That small town thinking is what is destroying the small towns. They didn't even have internet services and that was 2010. It did have a Blockbuster video still but it closed.
Lived here in Alaska all my life. Have traveled to many communities throughout the state. Our State government is a joke.
I'm for mining and development so long as it's done in as responsible a way as possible. If it wasn't for Red Dog Mine the Nome region would be under the poverty line.