> A few more famili but it will probably - in are built for everyone. U 2. Woy 0 you Newtok will operate from by water. 6 herinaeadet * * This month, a pioneering group of migrant? Check village of Newtok fi the dictionary In the process, th: ve Bee earliest climate Chat | : ee i | Tie ikon tes nse the Are Cra vry cold pace. Lacks np chic, ce ccc its location. What kind of dificulties do you think people who ine there face? ME 21: Critical Thinking, Iz Geography, Digital, SDG Climate —ABig Thaw as large * For thousands of years, until the early 20% ‘i oe ~~ A ly 20" century, the Yup'ik North America Were seasonally nomadic hunters who moved between camps melachen as hey hunted seals, moose, and musk oxen and gat ries Siem Hee breens: While this community still maintains a subsistence of te cow famiy BIVTe, they s found in arctic regions te + subsistence: minimum Sangean’ —* Since then, as climate change has warmed Bes wrasnane the subsistence the planet, it has started thawing the frozen iiaseety te upp We vats ground that sits below the surface across © dwindles: decrease in |e 9 million square miles of the far north. ds at olla | 4. Wortsime That is causing roads, pipelines, and building gnawing, f foundations to buckle while also releasing more greenhouse gases, Splashing, risir ~*~ ¥ i 1 fe ee which drives global temperatures even higher. Meanwhile, as sea ice Sahed er, dwindles and moves offshore, storm surges are rushing up rivers, show thatthe (ig.| gnawing away at banks and splashing into communities. iA Rising seas accelerate this erosion: thawing permafrost, Alaska 7 Asa result, Newtok residents have watched for years enormous chunks of the once-stable soil crumble into the Ninglick, bringing the waters ever closer to homes, sometimes as much as 83 feet per year. Floods frequently leave households isolated. One study in the early 2000s showed that vast sections of the town could become part of the river as early as 2027. --+ CED There are many communities that practise a ‘subsistence lifestyle’, It means they do not rely on industries for their necessities, but rely on Nature for their livelihood. ‘a. What are the necessities for which we rely on industries and large-scale agriculture? Name a few, b. Write one benefit of following ‘subsistence lifestyl 21: Critical Thinking; IL: SDG — Climate, Consumption and Production zmities facing similar py * Bi her isolated Alaskan commu) , Buta ith ay eed ern sng eS ing, instead gathering Cr ing water in residents have lived without plumbing. in! Se ately ace _The lack of proper sanitation has Jed to health probl + In 2003, the government finally agreed to create the new village of Mertarvik, ‘Frou Since then, money has slowly come from state and federal agencies roads, a community centre, & Jandfill and a power station, A water treatment vel bo Bniahed in a few weeks and a new sobee! will Be UP and running in ¥y landing strip is also coming S092 homes that are needed have been} % But only about a third of the 60 or so new ‘They have electricity but don't yet have access to public water or sewer sys the community first wanted to get as many homes built and occupied as Getting money to install running water and sewer could take many more y 1 So, for now, residents get to begin transforming Mertarv ik into a pew commit away all the while maintaining their old one sev eral miles i “We're moving, literally, in the calm between storms,” says John, Newtok Village tribal administrator | construction site at Mertarvik, Alaska A Difficult Move 8 It won't be simple. For now, some tribal offici: ; es , som cials will live i ik whi will remain in Newtok. There will be school teachers a ; aaa 3 a principal on each site, Some educating will be done via vide ae video. MRD 216 Critical Thinking; IL: SDG — Water and SanitationThe unwanted feelings about moving grow stronger. _- However, staying here isn? fun though. We will be moving to an unfamiliar place. But this place will grow vacant as the years go by. way: “Many folks are not happy to be leaving the place they've lives.” But they are excited to finally be moving to a place with © John says some residents are relieved while others feel anxious, and a few already experience separation anxiety. Some are too busy gathering food for winter to give it much thought. © The move might leave some residents a bit farther from traditional hunting grounds, “but frankly that's a smalll price to pay for the safety and security they will now have,” John says. “I think as a people, our greatest attribute has been our ability to adapt. Our people have been flexible. We've found