Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground by Elizabeth Marino

Author:Elizabeth Marino [Marino, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Anthropology
ISBN: 9781602232662
Google: unKOCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2015-09-15T02:38:04+00:00

Thousands of years ago, hungry nomads chased caribou here across a now-lost land bridge from Siberia, just 100 miles away. Many scientists believe those nomads became the first Americans. Now their descendants are about to become global warming refugees [original emphasis]. Their village is about to be swallowed up by the sea. . . . “We have no room left here,” said 43-year-old Tony Weyiouanna. “I have to think about my grandchildren. We need to move.”138

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When the arctic winds howl and angry waves pummel the shore of this Iñupiat Eskimo village, Shelton and Clara Kokeok fear that their house, already at the edge of the Earth, finally may plunge into the gray sea below. . . . “The land is going away,” said Shelton Kokeok, 65, whose home is on the tip of a bluff that’s been melting in part because of climate change. “I think it’s going to vanish one of these days.”139

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