Funny stuff
As inhospitable environments go, it doesn’t get much trickier than living near the Arctic Circle where the temperature can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the permanent winter darkness and the diet consists of walrus and whale blubber.
But this is where a British adventurer has been living for the last three months with an endangered tribe so that he can record their rapidly disappearing culture and language.
Steven Pax Leonard has spent 12 weeks freezing his tuccus off. His Apple Mac is literally frozen. He’s witnessed glacier’s and ice pack. But, you know
But Leonard says that apart from political pressure, the tribe faces a new and unprecedented threat to their culture from global warming.
“It is widely understood how global warming is threatening the natural environment but the Inughuit represent a bona fide example of how climate change impacts on local cultures.
“The threat of global warming to their traditional hunting life has left the Inughuit believing that their current settlements will not be here in 15 years’ time, that people will relocate southwards, and will assimilate into a broader Inuit culture,” wrote Leonard.
Of course, it has to be. And you know it is mankind’s fault. Apparently unlike all the other times where the climate has gone from warm to cold to warm to cold. Oh, hey, I wonder how Steven got there?
“With 16 others and a small mountain of freight as co-passengers, I arrived in the community aboard a Dash 7 turboprop aircraft.”
Interesting. And how did he get to Greenland in the first place? A jet airliner, by chance?
