ANTH 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 10 : Public Health, Ok Tedi Mine, Shetland
10 Dec 2017
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Across the arctic many indigenous people are already observing the effects of climate change that are. Introduction outside of the remembered experience of their culture. Warmer summers have increased the numbers of biting flies and mosquitoes and have brought in southern species of fish and birds. The thawing of permafrost has undermined the foundations of buildings, homes, roads in alaska. Costal erosion has demolished homes and other buildings. Thought by far the largest share of human activities that accelerated climate change occur father south in canada and the united states, with coal burning power plants and gasoline- burning cars and trucks. The inuvialut of sachs harbour participated with cultural ecologists in as study that spanned the seasons during 1999 and 2000. They hunted musk ox and other animals in fall. In winter they ice fished on inland lakes. Arctic sea ice continues to shrink even more rapidly.
