The dark is rising from the BBC World Service.

The powers of the dark are reaching out now steadily and stealthily all over this world.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

We've chosen to live here for a reason,

because we want to be close to nature, we provide from it.

If I wanted to live in a mining capital, I would move to one.

I mean, for the soul, the nature is part of our souls.

Northern Sweden has been home to the Sami,

Sweden's indigenous people for centuries.

But it's also a place that's shaping the country's future.

Thanks to big investments in new carbon cutting technologies

and mining for the materials to build them.

If we don't have the minerals we need for the technology

that will actually help us coming out of the climate crisis,

we won't be able to succeed.

There's a crisp, white dusting of snow.

It's minus one degree Celsius here.

I've got my floor length puffer jacket on, down gloves, a woolly hat.

Although this is considered a mild winter's day in this part of the world.

I'm Maddie Savage, I've been working as a journalist here in Sweden

for the last eight years.

And for this episode of the documentary, I'm in Yachtmock,

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