Does anybody know what any traditionally living tribal people have to say about global warming?

Question

It occurs to me that it is those who are still intimately connected with the Earth who must have a voice in the Global Warming dilemma. Do you know anyone with the traditional knowing who has expressed concern. I understand the Eskimos did not have a word for slush. What about other peoples?

Answer 1

the tribes in the amazon who's rain forests are getting burned down. They were in the science channel in this one movie. they talked about how they can't know when the rain is coming or not, it's so unpredictable now.

Answer 2

The Natives I've talked to express a great deal of sadness because they've seen first hand what "civilized society" has done to the world.  They know mother earth will survive no matter what we do, but they worry about them, their children, their people and the rest of humankind because "we will be the ones to become dust"

Answer 3

In the delta of the Mackenzie river, an area that feeds many caribou, and uncounted birds, warmer weather has meant major problems for the caribou, as they have a habit of moving north onto the delta just before the river ice breaks up. They are staying back on the mainland, further south, further East or West. That is not urgent. What is the problem is that the great pasture lands are going ungrazed until late July. Then the herds are not able to return south safely at their normal time because the ice is too thin. They try, but are lost into the ice, not able to swim away because there is ice, not able to walk over it.

The ocean beyond the delta is providing much more time to fish without ice, but there are fewer fish, even fewer seals.

Pasture on the delta has rarely been this good, but that may be because so few caribou are eating it. It could be because of more frost free growing time.

The delta is always close to being flooded, and so  there is concern about rising sea levels, but they have not observed a noticeable rise recently.

Further inland, further south, flooding has been increasing for centuries as the delta silts up. So they do not attribute any increasing flooding to global warming, nust more soil being deposited by the river in the delta.

Answer 4

I live in bush Alaska in a village at the edge of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian territories traditionally. When you say Eskimo, which type of Eskimo are you referring? The ones here in my village are concerned, but they have always had to adapt and seem to be taking it in stride. I see reports on the news in the papers about some people, especially the ones closer to the coast worrying about it a lot though.

Answer 5

They laugh at the notion man can influence nature in such a way.

And the myth Eskimos have 100 words for snow is ridiculous.  Look it up.  Several tribes are labeled "Eskimo", each with a different language.  All of their languages are polysynthetic languages (means they blend words).  Given the arctic has seen slush every summer since the height of the last Ice Age, odds are they have a base word in EACH of their languages to modify "snow" into "soupy snow".

Answer 6

I'm a fulani from Senegal and in my village people have raised concerns about deforestation and the loss of biodiversity due to warmer climates. Also we have a pink lake (LAC RETBA)  which has lost much  of its surface area due to longer dry seasons and shorter rainy seasons.

It is so sad that people have raised concerns about global warming for decades but it has only come to the forefront as of the new millennium.

I CRY FOR OUR MOTHER EARTH ; (

Answer 7

bush the neanderthal does not believe in it but he believes in tooth fairy