Global warming and indigenous survival: the Inuit

An extract from a talk by Sheila Watt-Cloutier of the Inuit Circumpolar at a Internation Forum on Globalisation teach in few days ago (taken here from Democracy Now of 23 Novembe (http://www.democracynow.org). She is making the very simple, but essential point, that global warming is not so much about the "environment", but about people and communities whose livelihoods and ways of life are threatened by it. People like the Inuit.

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• indigenous
• capitalism
• enclosures
• global
• warming
• environment

[pinz2022]

@M69miguel

If that bunch still has a "hunting culture" it exists only in memory.

[pinz2022]

Do these professional activists get paid by Big Green?

The suicide and alcoholism are cause by the Welfare State.

The poison is coming from Russian Arctic industries.

I get such a kick about these characters whining about eroding villages. Until about a century ago the Inuit did not have fixed villages. They set up "fish camps" inland during the Summers and seaside camps during the Winter. It was the missionaries and governments that made them settle down.

[M69miguel]

Very impressive.

[duckman4you]

Hey thanks alot this video was a great help:)

[miighankurt]

western europeans ... no comment ...

[0Rbbrt0]

I read the article about global warming in the waspreporter.

and did an oral test about it .

[GENUINEPUNK]

natives are the gaurdians of the world

[DaveMartinCanuck]

this will become a Human Rights issue.

[williewill037]

This is such an important video. I wish more people would take envioralmental issues to heart. I want to do more.