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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GLOBAL WARMING is a GOOD thing...
Translation: SEND US MONEY! POLAR BEARS ARE THRIVING! SEND IT ANYWAY! WE BELIEVE!
“Only a handful of Togiak students go to college; most drop out by 10th grade.”
Didn’t know college had 10 grades..........I understand the intent of the statement, just a commentary on the poor quality of the way the story was written.
“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”.
Oh the drama.
“I like Disco, and I hear it’s making a comeback”, Logusak says, sitting at a lunch table at the village’s public school, where older residents join students for government-subsidised free meals.
It’s June. The heat in my house is still on. ‘Nuff said.
The Eskimos’ main product is selling summer ice?
“From Alaska to Africa’s Kalahari Desert to the Amazon, indigenous communities have been among the hardest hit by climate change”
Translation:
global warming is hardest on poor people.
“............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.”
I s’pose if my existence was subsidized by a government run by Leftists preaching Global Warming, and I feared no more free food, perhaps I’d say something to the effect Global Warming exists to keep the food coming. Kinda like saying GW is NOT caused by fossil fuels is due to BIG OIL paying me to say so.
I need to call out Newsweek and their smug liberalism here
They talk of Eskimos. According to politically correct theology, the term Eskimo is an outdated insulting term, along the lines of talking about colored people or Negroes. That term was banished from the vocabulary of trendy liberals.
I’m surprised they get away with using the term Eskimo.
“...maths and science teacher...”
This author writes as if she is from the UK. If so, maybe she can go back to the UK, soon.
You know, every day since Memorial Day it got above 90 in FL. And it’ll probably be that way until mid-Sept. It’s been that way here ever since a certain Light-Skinned Hispanic named Ponce deLeon landed at what’s now St. Augustine in 1513. Those damn White people have been screwing up the world ever since./s
Maybe if they had more than a 10th grade education, they’d know the difference between science and propoganda.
Stop posting facts … it ruins a good rant. :-D
I am expecting wildlife populations to explode if growing seasons are longer.
You might not see it right away, if animals aren’t as concentrated but more widely dispersed.
The correct answer is "Yes...
...eventually"
The libs have made a special point in buying off the Alaskan Eskimos. And global warming—along with drilling—is one of the excuses for the payoffs.
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