New Book Relates Inuit Elders' Experience of Climate Change
A new book looks at the human side of climate change in the Arctic.
It’s called “The Caribou Taste Different Now-Inuit elders observe climate change.”
While scientists continue to document and gather data on Arctic changes, two researchers talked to elders to get their personal observations of how things are changing. The observations range from melting permafrost, to changes in animal migration, to new species of plants, animals, and marine life arriving while others seem to decline, and how this is affecting the Inuit way of life, diet, travel, and traditions.
The 300-page book contains interviews with 145 Inuit elders ranging in age from 45 to 92. The interviews were conducted between 2007 and 2010 in eight communities in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, the far northern regions of Quebec (Nunavik) and in Labrador ( Nunatsiavut).
Terry Halifax