Feb 1, 2021 | Climate emergency

Inupiat Elder Delano Barr talks about climate change in Shismaref, Alaska, 2019

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The science tells us that the Arctic summer sea ice will have meaningfully disappeared within a generation, that temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on the planet. However, it is Arctic Peoples who frame these challenges in their own way as they experience the land melting beneath their feet and coastal villages being swept away.

See the British Museum’s exhibition “Arctic: culture and climate” to hear from people on the front line about global heating, their livelihoods and their culture.

 

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