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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 03:44 PM Aug 2015

This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea

Source: latimes

This what climate change looks like, up close and personal.

In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with every storm.

There is no space left to build homes for the living. The dead are now flown to the mainland so the ocean won't encroach upon their graves. Most here agree that the town should be relocated; where, when and who will pay for it are the big questions. The Army Corps of Engineers figures Kivalina will be underwater in the next decade or so.

Because the town's days on the edge of the Chukchi Sea are numbered, no money has been invested to improve residents' lives. Eighty percent of the homes do not have toilets. Most rely on homemade honey buckets — a receptacle lined with a garbage bag topped by a toilet seat.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-arctic-obama-20150830-story.html



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This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 OP
I'm sure some fossil fuelists will tell you it's because Jesus doesn't like them anymore. nt valerief Aug 2015 #1
Not to be insensitive but... underpants Aug 2015 #7
Right! JDPriestly Aug 2015 #10
not their fault. they were born in Alaska, most on the island Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #11
I had a relative who lived up there years ago and used to crow about the government check MADem Aug 2015 #12
It looks about the size and shape of an aircraft carrier Demeter Aug 2015 #2
This is sick. No words. n/t PatrickforO Aug 2015 #3
No comment except for Climate Deniers who are thinking some stupid Bullsh*t >>> BlueJazz Aug 2015 #4
K&R AnotherDreamWeaver Aug 2015 #5
The should exile "Senator Snowball" onto that island. nt SunSeeker Aug 2015 #6
No he is from Oklahoma underpants Aug 2015 #9
The road is going to be cut off soon. underpants Aug 2015 #8
yes. and no room for even a small plane to land Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #14
The sea level has risen before, England and France were once connected; freshwest Aug 2015 #13

underpants

(182,284 posts)
7. Not to be insensitive but...
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 05:25 PM
Aug 2015

Everyone there gets a check courtesy of the oil industry. 85% of the state budget is paid by the oil - sorry PC -energy industry

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
11. not their fault. they were born in Alaska, most on the island
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 07:10 PM
Aug 2015

I am sure it still sucks to lose one's land to the ses

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. I had a relative who lived up there years ago and used to crow about the government check
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 09:12 AM
Aug 2015

he got every year.

I didn't see it as worth it. I'd rather pay taxes and live somewhere I could see the sun year round.

underpants

(182,284 posts)
9. No he is from Oklahoma
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 05:30 PM
Aug 2015

Sea rise is the LAST thing he needs to worry about for his cinstituents. Earthquakes due to fracking - or Sharia c. H. U. D. S. - is what he needs to worry about.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
13. The sea level has risen before, England and France were once connected;
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 10:54 AM
Aug 2015

The Bering Strait, Japan, Egypt and various places in the Mediterranean and Carribean had land bridges now covered with water.

Sometimes one wonders how high the water will go - somewhere on DU, I read that the ocean will be at a very high level on the west coast. Some islands are 'drowning' now.

San Francisco and Miami don't appear to be around in the future. The ice caps are leaving rapidly, just like the glaciers have been for some years.

The folks there in Alaska have many more bad days coming. Mankind is going to be on the move as in the past with large migrations.

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