Pilunnguaq Olsen – 24 year old student of journalism.

Atammik – Latitude 64° 48’ N – Longitude 052° 10’ W

233 inhabitants 

Interviewed in August 2010

A fisherman in my family told me that he catches more and more fish which contain plastic. I find that disgusting. There is plastic everywhere on our beaches. The animals eat it, some of them die, and the people are being poisoned. Something must be done urgently to find a substitute.

In Nuuk, the capital of our country, it is good form to speak Danish. The town would like to be a model of the European style. This is a cause for concern, because there, a lot of Greenlanders no longer speak their own language.