Optimistic despite the coal crisis
And the biggest optimists are those voting for the Green Party.
"I find it difficult these days," said Berit Våtvik, who planned to stay just a year when she came to Svalbard during the 1970s. "One feels for those who may have to leave here. But it has not affected us in any way. Or at least to a very small degree."
Young optimists
Along with her husband Karl, she operates Svalbard Villmarkssenter and this fall she was a Green Party candidate for the Longyearbyen Community Council. They are among those with the brightest outlook about the situation in Longyearbyen despite the massive downsizing of the town's cornerstone enterprise.
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