Why We are Trappers of Furs...to Lars Kullberg of Sweden

We're really sorry you live in a world that's been destroyed by human kind for thousands of years.  You should not be comparing your situation in Sweden to ours in Canada.  You have no idea of what you are talking about and for that matter neither do a lot of the people who live in large cities.  When people lose personal contact with the land , they tend to get this great big Green inclination to save it,  when in fact 95% of Canada is uninhabited and does not need saving.
We have the best record of any country in the world for looking after our public land and it's inhabitants, be they floral, fauna and humans alike.  We have almost no endangered species and if they were endangered, they would certainly be protected.  We did not kill off the Buffalo, the Passenger Pigeon, The Trumpeter Swan or the Natives, and the list goes on and on.  Canada is relatively new as compared to other parts of the world and it's rule makers had experience on what had happened in Europe and the US etc regarding land and floral and fauna and they made better rules to protect all of the above.
My point is, we in the rural area of Canada do not have the guilty conscious of the rest of the civilized world.  We have been trapping for 450 years in Canada on an on going and steady bases.  If you look at the number of pelts harvested, there has been no decline.
Our trapline is 1300 square kilometers.  You can walk North for 200 kilometers and not hit a dirt road.  You can walk for 1,500 km south and 110 km west and no roads.  We are the only ones who can trap this large area.  In the U.S. a trapper could trap anywhere.  This led to lack of accountability which Canada did not want.
People in cities have their Hench men to do their dirty deeds for them.  They mostly live in a glass bubble and are protected from getting their hands dirty.  In a lot of cases they have lost touch with reality.
All animals whether it is chicken, beef, fish or a fur bearing animal die of unpleasant and violent death. Humans reached their level of status in the world because of being a top predator.
Wild land has a carrying capacity.  Most of the animals that die each winter are not - so called weak or sick.  They are the young and inexperienced.  These are the targets of trappers.  A large portion of our small fur bearing predators die in their first winter.  They don't learn in time how to hunt their prey (mostly rabbit and mice) in the deep snow of winter which is 7 months.  That's the ones a trapper takes.  To come up with the silly conclusion..... If there is so many dieing why take any?  This would be the obvious question.  The reason we trap is because it is a renewable resource, if managed properly
Harvesting the surplus animals stabilizes the population and as young juvenile male predators are without a home territory and driven from one area to the next with the threat of death from older established males,  these young males are the targets of trappers.  Trappers monitor their catch.  Record and avoid female established areas.  They are constantly moving to different areas, leaving large areas alone.  We know that trapping can go on indefinitely with no loss of numbers for the fur bearers.  Can this be said for Plastic and cotton clothing.  Some person gets a little stain on them and they are hucked into the garbage.  These used to be cut up and used for rages, woven rugs or quilts but most people are too lazy to do that now.  They think it is beneath them.
Wool sweaters used to be unwound, reballed and made into socks or mitts.  Not any more.  Just threw it away.
Fur gets made into something you cherish and love.  It keeps you warmer than anything.  When it is no longer good for wearing, it is cut up and used for smaller things like boot trim, collars, gloves, mitts, boot liners, throws, etc.  You don't see fur in the land fill.  
If you think you're Green because you sort your garbage and put it out on the curb.....you need to rethink what you are buying.  Garbage cans full of food waste that used to be feed to your pigs, chickens, dogs etc.  Nothing went to waste.  The so called recycling uses more energy and manpower than it returns, but it makes the consumer and the seller feel good. 
People should buy local vegetables if they can't grow their own. But really there is no reason for anyone not to have some sort of garden.  Buy sustainable products.  Don't over consume and for goodness sake don't throw good stuff into the land fill. 
If we all were of your mind set, who would be the hench man ..... the butcher, the logger, the undertaker, the oil driller, the farmer, the miner, the fisherman and the list goes on and on.  All the good people who do your dirty work for you.  I know there are too many people for us all  to live Green, but you would be hard pressed to find a greener person than  this trapper who does all of his own dirty work including butchering the moose and digging the potatoes and feeding his scraps to his chickens.
So maybe it's time you give your head a shake, instead of trying to shake ours.