Borders and Values

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What part of those profits go to Reindeers, Birds and Plants? Why isn’t Natural systems part of it? On Global Economy, whatshould have the biggest wheel on the system: Nature.

Iron Copper. Iron Ore Phosporous. Oil Nature

How do we value Nature if it is not part of the market?

Main Commodities moving the Market

Gold

Value Containers Hammerfest Taxation rate Skaidi Taxation rate Kvalsund taxation rate Sami Reindeers Community

Reppar Fjord Water & Delta

Taxation rate (From higher to lower)

Birds

Plants and Grassland


Borders and Values Where opposing tensions meet a border is created and sometimes they leave physical traces allowing us to point them out. Physically, a border can be seen as wide when differences on two substances are delicate and where therein lies a gradual blending from one substance to another; on the other hand we can say that it is thin whereas it lays clear-cut differences between them. These substances can be taken from other contexts like for example layers underground long past in earth history brought into the bio-layer where we are standing and living our daily lives. In space and other scales, a border can be a thin layer of nothing when trying to mix oil and water, so microcosms relate to density units to construct a bigger picture, relying on Science which is meticulous under the microscope as good as the satellites having a magnifying lenses to a broader territory act as tools that aid human senses to bring forth a common ground. There are some parallel concepts on Bateson’s “Double Bind”, within it uses several key concepts like “transcontextual process”. "Now I want to make one simple point here, and that is about what one might call the power geometry of it all; the power geometry of time-space compression. For different social groups, and different individuals, are placed in very distinct ways in relation to these flows and interconnections. This point concerns not merely the issue of who moves and who doesn't, although that is an important element of it; it is also about power in relation to the flows and the movement. Different social groups have distinct relationships to this anyway differentiated mobility: some people are more in charge of it than others; some initiate flows and movement, others don't; some are more on the receiving-end of it than others; some are effectively imprisoned by it." Doreen Massey.

Politically, it can either become a wall, when guarded by enforcement personnel in group aggressions, or even become an imaginary line, setting country limits. A political border can become a thin one when tensions gradually rise or a wide one when all parts have agreed and settled a tradition of use of their spatial limits and had accepted themselves as equals in similar conditions. Bateson, 1972 Look at Bateson’s Symmetrical relationships and Complementary relationships. Biologically, borders found in nature, are most likely to be in a soft transition, when we talk about living organisms, ecotones may appear, as a new set of relationships. In this way habitats or biotopes can become meeting points and battlefields where new relationships are challenged. In our study case, searching for future scenarios, zoning proposals of the mine and the communities’ living spaces, that are eminently existent, are in contradistinction. They not only belong to human spaces but larger or smaller living organisms as well, categorizing them in all ranges and scales. Ore deposits, Waste deposits, Bank deposits, or any deposits are usually regarded as savings or stored material for future use. They can be commodities that have already a value or materials with a potential value, therefore we accumulate and store them in containers or imaginary containers, so we usually find an economical value to whatever its worth saving for the future. Some ancient objects for example, under the twisted look of a collector or art dealer, who starts first buying them at a cheap price and then sell them as an entire


collection at a totally different value. So storing is involved and knowledge is embedded on the marketing strategy extracted from the objects so they reach a totally different category with a value never imagined and sometimes even absurd. When value is found it can be sold at an established price set according to its popularity of use. For instance, if we can measure and store sources for green Energy or clean air for future generations, these can become valuable, but most of these resources are taken for granted and yet they have not been valued properly. The idea of storage means money on the actual global Economy, if we could just “disrupt the system temporally until the system can self-correct� Bateson, 1972. We will have ideally a solution so we can gather resources to finance the future, and leave out problems that have to be solved by Science Research processes. And use this knowledge of science and cycles to reinsert wastes into the Mind as Bateson says, or just Nature, where there are not sub products of industrial processes.

References From The Big Picture, Royalty Tax percentages can become government savings or a deposit for future investment, From the perforated landscape, the vision of eroded land with its water bodies is challenged. Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson, 1972. In the article entitled " A Global Sense of Place" written by Doreen Massey


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