ENVS 2100 Chapter Notes -Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, World Meteorological Organization, Kyoto Protocol
28 Mar 2014
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Ilira: fear of people with power or control of you. Climate change being the main problem of our decline of animals. Especially the polar bears, due to our green house gas emissions more icecaps are melting creating a alternate weather for the polar bears to hunt for food. The inuit, using what they call inuit qauhimatuqangit , or inuit knowledge, to predict the occurring situation that would occur within the land. However, they fear due to the change in weather that animals such as the polar bears would be desperate and hunt off humans that live near it. Western civilization blame the inuits hunting to be the problem of polar bears diminishing numbers while vice versa happens where inuits blame western civilization of green house gas emissions affect the climate change. Sila : warming of northern: weather. The fear of weather changes has become a main concern. Climate change has been recognized however nothing has been dealt with.
