Finn Larsen: The Dump
The Dump – growing mountains of waste in Greenland, is part of the exhibition ”MANS LAND” 2012, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Galleri Pi, Copenhagen and museums in Greenland, now on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cta1-rrX6Xs&feature=youtu.be (The Dump, streaming, ENGLISH version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qs7xcuC9lE (The Dump, streaming, GRØNLANDSK version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbHfLqkyRl0&t=197s (The Dump, streaming, DANSK version)
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/3605/ (Om Finn Larsen fotografi og udstillinger)
WASTE
There are 56,700 inhabitants in Greenland, in 18 cities and 50-60 settlements. There is practically no waste management. In the larger cities there are waste combustion systems, but they are undersized and malfunctioning.
Waste disposal management in Greenland is in worse state than it is in Denmark, even though Denmark is no role model. Numerous campaigns want to reduce Greenland to a victim of climate changes. But the majority of Greenlanders does not share this conviction.
The government of Greenland desires room for economic growth and as a result, they agitate the right to increase pollution. Oil drilling and extraction of gold and rare metals are under planning. The economic potential is immense. So are the possibilities of environmental disasters and the risk of expanding al-ready existing social gaps.
The problems Greenland is facing with waste disposal and societal dilemmas are the same, as those of other Nordic and European countries.The distinction is that the problems in Greenland are worse and more evident.
Greenland is no different from any other country. That’s the problem. (Finn Larsen, 2016)
Finn Larsen: The Dump, a journey from north to south of Greenland. Sweden, 2012 (web 2016) 26 min., YouTube.
