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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valerief
(53,235 posts)underpants
(182,284 posts)Everyone there gets a check courtesy of the oil industry. 85% of the state budget is paid by the oil - sorry PC -energy industry
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)I am sure it still sucks to lose one's land to the ses
MADem
(135,425 posts)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.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)lightbulb goes on over head...
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)underpants
(182,284 posts)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.
underpants
(182,284 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)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.