Posted on 04/24/2016 5:57:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
QUINAULT tribal members can attest to the urgency of climate change from an up-close and personal perspective. We're being forced to relocate part of our village of Taholah on the Washington coast. Ocean encroachment, increasingly severe storm surges and flooding are forcing more than 1,000 of our people to permanently move to higher ground.
Tribes are not primary contributors to weather changes. Blame it on industrial smoke stacks, thousands of cars that clog the freeways and exploiters who destroy natural habitat. But we're often the first to feel the impact because of our proximity and connection with rivers, inland seas and the ocean.
Unless more determined action is taken in response to climate change now, our children will witness the end of salmon, shellfish, whales and much more in their lifetime.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
We will witness the end of salmon because of the flooding
Great.
Replace true research science (as opposed to government grant corrupted research) with the chant of the medicine man.
That will get to the truth.
Where’s my casino ?
Building on unstable sandy gravelish-ground with virtually no top soil, right on the edge of the water is a recipe for disaster. If the Quinault were really “in touch” they would know better as did their ancestors who were not on the Federal handout programs. This is simply playing to the idiots who run WA State and the public who can’t wait to have Lo, the Poor Indian standing next to him/her/it in solidarity.
The usual pack of lies form a Treaty Tribe begging for more money so the tribal elders of the ruling families can build new homes and continue to live the life style that a chest of drawers full of $100 bills affords them (no ruling family home is complete without at least one).
The same thing happened on Staten Island where fools bought ptoperty and houses in a flood zone
before I read this story, I knew it was blame and they want money for suffering. typical Native Americans story
History of world. People move. So move and save yourself.
That was my first thought. They are angling for a casio.
That place was poorly sited, it was always like that.
Indians lived there and used to move around season to season, now they have built permanent homes and chose to build in a place where they had only temporarily lived historically.
when the Cascadia fault ruptures, everyone living in this low area along the coast will be killed by a tsunami...happened last in January of 1700. Indians that kept up on their ancestors wisdom would know that.
LOL, in my younger days, living on the water, it was called ‘erosion’.
Yes the end of salmon certainly wouldn’t have anything to do with the maze of gill nets that clog the rivers.
Oh please.
Now they are trotting out Indian tribes to lament global warming????
This reeks of a pathetic PR campaign, not an actual concern about the fate of Indian lands or Indian life.
Please, spare us.......
Whole islands and towns in the Chesapeake Bay have been disappearing for centuries. Natural process.
TC
Blah, blah, blah. Open another casino.
I’m sure this is the first time in history that natural phenomena have forced a village to relocate. But this time, instead of blaming it on evil sprits or witchcraft, the convenient boogeyman is Global Warming.
Right - it isn’t about wise decisions, it is about money.
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