Freezers full of seal meat: How Greenland’s hunting culture helps emergency preparedness
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"I’m not scared," 73-year-old Ringsted said, standing beside one of his two chest freezers packed with reindeer meat, halibut, cod, redfish, and seal meat in his home in the Kapisillit settlement in the Nuuk fjord. "I have enough food here for more than a year." Ringsted, who no longer hunts due to health issues, depends on family and friends to deliver fish and meat from the Nuuk fjord. Supply chains in remote parts of Greenland are vulnerable to sudden weather changes, and the local grocery store in his settlement is restocked just once a week with basic necessities.
On Wednesday, Greenland’s government issued updated recommendations for crisis preparedness, advising residents to keep five days’ worth of water and food, as well as access to hunting weapons, ammunition, and fishing gear.
That same day Trump abruptly stepped back from threats to impose tariffs on key European allies as leverage to seize Greenland, ruled out using force and said a deal was in sight to end the dispute over the Danish territory. He said on Thursday the details of the agreement were still being worked out.
