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if. it. gets. down to 8. it says to the. on dead. i don't need to tell people here in alaska what's happened. over the past few years i've been trying to make the rest of the country more aware. of a changing climate where you're already living in. point permafrost that threatens homes and infrastructure faster glacier melt rising seas melting sea ice that
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contributes to some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world and i've talked to folks whose villages are literally in danger of slipping away. and for many of those alaskans it's no longer a question of if they're going to relocate but when. and my grandfather. used to say is new top will become one big. ready in 9 of. the river as a new and comes in. it's like this one big island surrounded by the water. on. feel like it's getting
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it's on everybody's mind. and everybody has 3 days we have to relocate and they are there 10 years ago the people were saying. move within 4 years. and that that was and this is a statement i have come to know you know the shore legros is toast 3 years. i think. not to bug out to look at hardly needs to take a make of the. remember that movie com cruise and they're renovating a house the money they would ask the. contractor is going to take 2 weeks and so it always means we are that is because of the state words hours 2
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patrols i am 19 years old and i am from a small village called new talk. i go to a school that has 137 student i'm writing about a village trying to move because of climate change the talk is a small place toto's about 350 people and we are trying to move to a place called most i'm humbled 200 miles of new tough. i have been in need talk strictly all my life and it has always been the same movie here we lose a number of feet to flanders. sure what is not the same it shares the extent of the eurozone because the weather isn't the same each year sometimes it curb bridge with us but most of time with the. rig into doesn't do last 150 feet of land from water washing the line and the
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nurse on to the water's about 100 yards we are going to have a disaster if we don't move. and we need to act as soon as possible before the water just horse or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. all the land just falls down and. cannot pick up. i strongly believe we can do this but we will need to help this place is very important to us because how much hunting we do how much we move around a whole lot but the hardest thing we have to 1st is having no running water or us or sewer line we hunted buckets was which is a 5 gallon bucket for him and wish they really don't get down into the water when
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it is for. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change that like playing chess in a test checkmate us. please we need to make a move because we have a possible 2 we might lose this battle. we'll just want to sit at a table knoller's just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. and laughing away with our cousins. life is too short to see a swim meet to the nearest village to board 40 miles and the waters to comb.
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you know their early contacts with the west stairs were mainly for trade with that trade of course and government and so with the government came either a post office or school so wherever they placed those structures is where these communities are told that you have to now live so regardless if your main camp which is probably your richer camp is the most prominent structure you have you can't go back there after you have to relocate your family here. they were not a one location people they were migratory and. in their way they were able to keep them there was 2 and sip their children off to boarding school if they didn't live near the school so the challenge began. in that initial contact.
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group are enough for school. you're starting to go. hard to understand what the psychological impacts where and they said you no longer can do that turnabout and if you don't come here are taking your children so i would think that. and i know they talk about generational trauma when you have been doing this for 15000 years and then somebody puts the stop light on it and the consequences are what we have to. look forward to talking to you. should work for people. must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law. or should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the
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in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. looking at the post because you know no rush for us though up most of us have got shows for ways to go on things and us at the darkness evil stuff back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is acting up us while the real lybia loses show them one by else a store on the by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all and some of the african americans who were too thrilled you're in you're in the know if you heard around great the crowd. the moon a dwarf you you're going to call you and now almost
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a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time i went to russia. on probable worst try to go anywhere why not mean. what if i come here. her lawyer explained to him. play. dr frost is down now what is happening into the permafrost now treat it sounds you know they did it because it's melting it causes the rouge so how many people have gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish know full
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well i'll be happy because that's where you guys don't your honey but it's it you know but if you do walk along there by what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to be disappearing in my class last semester in the fall we went out there and we measured how much the religion was how much you think we lost last year. we lost about 35 feet sometimes i wish close you were close 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is 35 feet closer to the town then what it was the year before so you guys think that the river is going yes.
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it's one thing to say the river is going to move here but this prompted a whole whole bunch of things this village is completely divided and there's just no way around you know to travel councils families don't talk to each other just all kinds of issues that have popped up. prompted by this river here moving into routing their communities. these no groups are from outside the arts far from the community they're not
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originally from. troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and and family are 1st because it's a tradition versus you know the new constitutional majority way of thinking so you have that tremendous divide different philosophies together and stanley represents one side and tom represents you know. my name is totally calm i'm very troubled minister under 4 and you can listen comes. to good. order and you will it's council it's a new intake there was a election dispute. in october 12th. the new car traditional council. somebody who works there. said we've never had to. hide a while. and it's an accident these are you working accused of not having 8
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years into 9 years of election when we moved in we had elected and all these years i know it was coming up. and some of the smarter words began following the money and realizing some of the money's not accounted for while they actually suspended the elections so once they suspended the election there was a there was a feeling that the community was being left out of the process yeah they were scheduled to leave in 2012. but through the division and the infighting and some of the you know your credit. issues to the stalled as it stands now the federal government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of.
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it's a shack when it comes down to some 3rd world shack it's basically. a last resort for people who want to live in really tough. going to. is created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times and are very much to a room small to see this interior room and everything else is kind of one ramp through the rule that at certain times for not wanting full gas. or you know. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the frustration levels fairly high. sometimes
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you wonder if they're doing this on purpose. i mean really when you come down to it this could be a foreign totally foreign country ignored by any infrastructure all live in the united states never just sitting in and this is all there's no running water wars all over so. it's a very crowded. the bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers call. 12 years and they leave they don't never study. i guess is just a cultural shock to him. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. moving to village then.
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everybody in the good smell you could much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now you could see the water. now. it's close we can see the ways bussin over the land when it when it gets rough. before the eyes. we can see the land working away. back home they have these here we have hurricanes. and help people move in do whatever you got to do it just sing like i just taken forever are you almost big enough to go to school yeah you ready yeah. i guess that's just words. tears me up and said. thank you no come on man these
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instead start at the same time. most cars in sept there were planning to move to a new state this winter. but i don't know if it's going to happen. or . there are still look at the last years or another 3rd world country. even though it's united states i see a part of america. it might be americans or the gays or 3rd world countries and their sphincter need to curious.
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kind of new type is thinking. the whole time you could really see it. so how is might be too late. didn't have to tell us even moved to the new set by now but the power struggle and money greed to too much money are to. our power line and putting in their party. just as the. even the local the loony tunes of. just 2 different councils think they're running legally.
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you know the monkey then the little musical voice he. chose seemed wrong rowles just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day it comes to cancer. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. or going at the risk of no no rush but also up of stuff yes it got worse you called things on your way. back home black
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american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that lump us about the real lybia losing show one by else a store or by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the african americans who were too through during the night. found great crowds. to moulay a golf you know gone to the oakland you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. on probable worst try to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here.
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