Title:
For Inuits Dealing With Climate Change, Science Can Be Slow and Bumbling
Author:
Carol Berry
Date Published:
10/25/2011
Description:
An Inuk woman practicing a traditional craft finds the sealskin she's working with doesn't have the nice fur of times past and it has rotten patches that tear easily. Her husband finds that hunting seals is more difficult than in the past because the formerly stable edge of an ice-floe has broken off and fewer seals are there. He carries a gun as protection against increasing numbers of polar bears. They are among Native people in the circumpolar North who experience climate change in their everyday lives and for whom conventional science, despite its ability to describe the change, sometimes has been unhelpful. © 2011 Indian Country Today Media Network, LLC, 10/25/11.
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