Posted on 06/03/2015 9:25:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Frank Logusak, a tribal elder in Togiak, a ramshackle settlement of 842 people on Alaska's remote Bristol Bay, is a hunter and a fisherman, a Yupik native who knew the village's last shaman. Logusak is no scientist, but in his 64 years here, he has watched and felt startling changes in the world around him.
"It's a problem, the global warming," Logusak says, sitting at a lunch table at the village's public school, where older residents join students for government-subsidised free meals. "Ice used to stay in the bay until May," he says. "It's way different now."
From Alaska to Africa's Kalahari Desert to the Amazon, indigenous communities have been among the hardest hit by climate change, because their way of life is so dependent on nature. "Indigenous peoples are the canary in the coal mine," says Nancy Maynard, a retired Nasa scientist who was lead author of the polar regions section of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
Only a handful of Togiak students go to college; most drop out by 10th grade. "Most kids want to stay and subsistence hunt and fish, and do commercial fishing," says Shayla Schwoch, a high school English teacher.
Back in the town of Dillingham, the starting point for flights to Togiak, I thumb a ride from the airport with Tara Kregar, a high school maths and science teacher in Dillingham who taught in Togiak last year. I ask if her students, in both places, are aware of climate change. She nods solemnly, then says, "I have students who ask if the world is coming to an end".
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Why does Gold Rush shut down production? FREEZING WINTERS
Why all the survival shows based on hard winters in Alaska? BETTER BUILD food stores or we will die.
Commercial fishermen have never scene the ice come so far south out of Dutch Harbor. Deadliest Catch storyline.
Someone is lying. I say NewsWEAK.
From the magazine that sold for one dollar a few years ago.
Not one magazine copy. The entire operation.
Which was probably about $1,000,000 more then it was worth.
Yep... lots of micro-aggression there. </s
Scientists use to think it took hundred of years to flip from warm interglacial to cold "ice age" we now know that the flip can happen very quickly in just a few years to a couple of decades. Maybe even faster when one considers all the perfectly preserved, perfectly healthy (except for being dead) mammoths frozen solid in Siberian tundra.
I think the answer they would have gotten from me in high school was, “God will one day judge this world and bring it to an end.” I suspect that is neither one they would use or the one they were looking for with that question.
This is because the teacher is "leading the witness". The kids, who because of their age have no sense of history, are easily manipulated by apocalyptic progressives.
Somehow I fail to see how if America's largest state by far becomes a little bit more livable how this would be a catastrophe.
So we’re supposed to spend billions of dollars a year so that a coupla hunert kids can still ice fish in May.
F*ck that noise.
Are you letting facts get in the way of a good story, and the liberal agenda?
Please, facts are so obviously right-wing hate speech.
Don’t you care about the indigenous people?
(/sarc)
It will be a while before the lush grazing and temperate climate that the wooly mammoths enjoyed returns to the Arctic, millenia before man came along to cause global warming. This is politics, not science.
Leftist rule #1 “It’s okay when we do it”
So, the teacher proffers propaganda to the students, observes that the students absorb and parrot the propaganda, and claims that as proof that the propaganda is true.
There's something missing there.
I need to put on taller boots before I walk in this barn.
Yes, I noticed the “maths” BS too. Damn Limeys! We kicked your butts once... Don’t make us do it again!
Written by a Brit. He used the term "Maths teacher."
Being a disingenuous hyprocritical liberal is getting more complicated all the time...
Why has anxiety replaced stress as the leading emotional problem in college students?
Because liberals have been teaching them for 12 years the world is going to end for humanity, or at least be horrible for them by the time they are adults.
What is going to happen when these ego maniacs realize that the global warming is something humans cannot effect or change.
They want to punish you for hurting the God EARTH.
Humans are bad, bad, bad. And the whole damn reason why the earth was invented by God.
Thank you
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