Nature made the people living on Earth’s largest island resilient. Norsemen, the first of Greenlands tough people arrived in longboats in the 10th century. The Inuit people arrived from the Canadian mainland three centuries later.
The Black Death plague wiped the Norse out in the 15th century. Then Danish settlers colonized Greenland three hundred years ago. It is still the least densely populated territory in the world.
Greenlands Tough People Fear Climate Change
Despite the rigors of the cold climate Greenland’s tough people call their island home. However, climate change has brought a summer of 2019 causing wildfires and ice loss. Scientists are only just beginning to realize how drastically this is changing things.
They have now released a study they title ‘Greenlandic Perspectives on Climate Change’. This gleaned information from 645 people in scattered communities. Three quarters of them expressed concerns about how their lifestyle was changing. They were worried about everything from food security to dog sleds. Meanwhile the nations to the south causing the problem hardly noticed their concerns.
Just Think About Our Children, They Say
The concerns of Greenlands tough people show clearly in comments in the report. “My father is a fisher and hunter, and it is hard for our family that he cannot hunt animals like when I was little. I miss that.”
“I miss dog sledding and fishing on the ice. Just like our culture, the animals that we hunt are disappearing slowly. Now I cannot teach my son like my father taught me,” a father says. A mother adds, “Just think about my children’s future? Maybe they won’t experience many of the things that we got to experience in our lives.”
If you think Greenlands tough people are fortunate their climate is getting warmer, please think again. Your carbon footprint is destroying their lives. Please think again. Message ends.
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