An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost
www.nytimes.com
Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    52·
    21 days ago

    The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

    So in a way, they’re no different than Floridians who refuse to move even though they can’t actually get their homes insured anymore.

    Humans and refusing to face the reality of climate change until it’s too late. Name a more iconic duo.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      And in another way, this is their ancestral land and people have been trying to force them off of it for 500 years.