People may think that we are poor, but actually we are rich.
We have moved to the forest.
We can't go on consuming, wasting, over-consuming.
That is the problem. We choose the nature. So to live here,
we are trying to solve problem ourselves.
One friend, he always calls us and collects if we need something from a supermarket -
what they throw away there. Once he had a tomato,
which was produced in Senegal, and packed in plastic in France,
sold in Ivalo and then thrown away in Lapland - northernmost Lapland.
That is insane. That is stupid.
Of course we ate the tomato but it made us think - what is this?
When you are living like this. when you have sheep and a cow and things, and then go hunting elk,
then you know what you would get, and that is healthy. That is totally a different thing than when you go
to the shop. When you produce it here, you know what you get and that is healthy.
We don't have running water (in) our house - we only use water on the lake. It's so fresh and clean.
You can drink it and we use it for cooking and washing dishes and washing
our clothes. We don't have a shower - we only have a sauna once or twice a week.
We warm up the sauna in the woods. Now in summertime, it's very easy to get water
from the lake but in the winter time, you must first cut a the hole in the ice,
and then you'll get some fresh very cold water.
We live a good, nice and peaceful life here. I don't think the children are missing something.
This is only healthy and then when they go to school they have the computer they have
the Internet - still we are connected with a global world, of course. We can't not be.
You should slow down. Eat less. Drink less. Go to shower every three or four days. Drive less.
Don't fly. People are not talking about consuming less. They think that we
can solve (things by) replacing the fossils fuels with solar or wind energy or something -
that's nonsense. We don't solve the problem by changing
things, by recycling. We will solve the thing by not doing the things.
We have chosen our lifestyle like this and other people should think about
climate change themselves and then find their own solutions for it.