FFS southern settlers stop building your careers by gathering mountains of money to pay yourselves to save the Inuit with greenhouses. How do I have to say this every gott-dam year?! There is a national collective amnesia that allows money to be wasted doing this over and over.

It’s been a really hard week. I don’t have the bandwidth to look into this right now and not scream curse words at people. Anyone in #nativejournalism interested in looking at how many greenhouse projects have wasted people’s money in the last 20 years?

They inevitably get positive press written by transient white journalists who are in the North for a few months. Then the Orgs or team members get some awards for innovation/social/environmental work. Then they go silent & disappear when cost benefit analyses show it’s pointless.

There’s also usually some minuscule support from local government, often agreed to by (once again) transient settler bureaucrats. Or a few younger Inuit folks who aren’t aware of the long history of failed tundra/permafrost greenhouse projects.

There’s also usually some philanthropic support for these projects from Orgs/foundations that should know better by now. If you focus on the Arctic, you should know greenhouses are not the solution to high Arctic food insecurity!!!

I’m not dissing greenhouses. They’re great for south of the tree line. They’re great for individuals who are into it and get a kick out of having one. But they are not a solution for Inuit living on rocky permafrost. Stop trying to replace our beautiful hunting culture.

All those donations should go to Inuit led projects. They should go toward initiatives that hold accountable all the corrupt animal rights and “green” orgs that have disrupted our food supply chain.

You wanna address food insecurity in indigenous communities? Support indigenous-led language, culture and #landback initiatives that strengthen our own food ways that make sense to us and make sense in our lands.

On this day in the 2021st year of our colonizer, be it known that it is anti-Inuit to support anti-seal hunt campaigns, and it is colonial AF to try to transplant/propagate a foreign food system onto indigenous peoples. Greenhouses on the tundra aren’t innovative.

I *almost* hesitated to name them because they’re just the latest in a long line of young, breathless, misty-eyed do-gooder saviours, but it was looking at @greeniglu that inspired this particular thread. I’ve written threads before about other iterations of the same tired idea.

Entities that give awards for #greeninnovation or #socialinnovation, please stop awarding non-native teams for trying to make greenhouses on the tundra a thing. $17-$35 per serving of veggies makes NO sense.

I would love to see a careful analysis of return on investment for this and other initiatives, including numbers on how much of the funds stay in the north vs. How much goes towards southern admin and travel and other expenses.