tv Documentary RT January 1, 2021 1:30am-2:01am EST
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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 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 his new top will become one big. ready in 9 of. the river as the new and comes in.
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it's like this one big island surrounded by the lodger. feel like it's getting danger danger every time it gets close. because who knows this one is one big village can come out snap. just where on the permafrost or on the permafrost and newtok it's it's really heavy you know. them to slant keeps coming off the ice the land.
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it's on everybody's mind. and everybody has 3 days we have to relocate and i got here 10 years ago the people were saying. who moved within 4 years. and that was and this is a statement that i have come to know you know the shore like ruth is toast 3 years. i think. not to bug out to look at hardly needs or wants to keep american in the mood to. remember that recommit crews and their river. the money they would ask the. contractor is going to
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take 2 weeks and so it always rises we are that is because of the state words hours 2 weeks are cared for years. i would like will move across the river are because it's higher ground i think people who are thinking about staying here forget that it floods here in the. people who are they could be repaired and they were steered by a car full of. not a safe place 2
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. hello my name is both charles i am 19 years old and i am promised my old village called new talk that 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 basically all my life and it has always been the same movie here we lose a number of feet of flanders sure what is not the same it shares the extent of the eurozone because the weather is an interesting beach or sometimes it career bridge with us but most of time it turns. rid into doesn't
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do we lost 150 feet of land from water washing line and nursed on to the waters about 100 jars we are going to have a disaster if we don't move. we need to act as soon as possible before the water just force or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. playing. just falls a land just falls down and. cannot pick tell thought. i strongly believe we can do this but we will need 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 surely we hunted buckets was which is
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a 5 gallon bucket for human waste they really don't get down into the water when it is for. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change like playing chess in a test checkmate us. please we need to make a move because we have the possible to might lose this battle. where you just want to sit at a table no 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 that's about 40 miles and the water is to comb. in the. area.
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you know their early contacts with the stairs were mainly for trade with the trade of course and government and so with the government came either a post office or school so wherever they placed those structures where these communities were 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 sick their children off to boarding schools they
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didn't live near the school so the challenge began. in that initial contact. i think were a part of america 1st for america for. worse or. you know when you go. or start a new cox problem there was a bar. the 1950s i was bringing in the school for. our. parts. have. our floor here off the road the wrong side of. on this. trip road.
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b.r.d. school group renewed more for school. from your study go. hard to understand what the psychological impacts were and they said you no longer can to get through that and if you don't come here we're taking your children so i would think that. and i know they talk about generational trauma and when you have been doing this for 15000 years and then somebody puts the stop on it and the consequences are what we have to. the world is driven by shaped by one person.
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thinks. we dare to ask. the kaiser report 1st of the new year's day so we got an excellent feel nice christmas lights adorning the set i mean you know i took the money i save and i bought all right so i'm going to turn to pete. the editor over a crack and he's also an advisor had been going back. changed lives with pharmaceutical companies how miraculous. solution.
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based drugs talk to people who are chronic pain patients to believe that their opiate prescription is working for them on the remedy piece it took to the price at the. closer dependency and addiction to opiates the long term use there really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggested that the long term effects might not just be the absence of benefit but actually that it might be causing long term. hurt her.
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that her frost is down now what is happening into the permafrost ended up now being a talented you know she did it because it's melting it causes the rouge so many people gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish know full well off to the house because that's where you guys don't your honey but it's a you know but if you do walk along there why what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to supreme my class last semester in the fall we went out there and he measured how much the religion was how much do you think we lost last year and he. we lost about 35 feet and sometimes i wish to close you were close 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring that it is fast and that means the river is. closer to the town then what
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it was the year before so you guys think the rivers. is one thing to say the river is going to move you 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 are. prompted by this river here moving in and rooting their communities.
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these no groups or from the outside it's far from the community they're not originally from new to. sit through troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and eleanor because it's a tradition versus you know the new prostitution or majority way of thinking so you have that tremendous divide different philosophies together and stanley represents one side and tom represents the other so my name is strongly com i'm the tribal minister for a new car chris and colmes originally i was to be a tribal at ministry. with its own schoolteacher and. there was
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a election dispute. in october well. the new car from 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 a tonight year's election when we moved in the wrong you have to look for all these years i knew 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 elections 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 bureaucratic issues the stalled as it stands now the federal
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government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of the. 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. is created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times in our family structure road strollers you know dysentery and everything else just kind of. been rampant through the
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villages at certain times for not wanting full. every 100. 40. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. some frustration levels fairly high. sometimes 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 this is home there's no running water whatsoever so. it's a very crowded. in the bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers come on 12 years and they leave they don't never study.
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i guess is just a culture shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. moving to village then. everybody roots you could much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now don't you could see the water. now. it's close we can see the way the bus and the overland when it when he gets rough. before lies. we can see land working away. back home they have these here we have hurricanes they are already and help. moving
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you do whatever you want to do and just saying like i just taken forever are you almost beginning to go to school you know you're ready now. i guess that's just what's. tears me up and said. thank you no come on man these people these people are just like us there's no difference and these people and the people on foreign. oil. human said oh it's just a little village 33 people will be gotten out so i don't think it's no big deal is a big do some big deal if their lives leg . length
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the united states i see a part of america. they might be americans or diggers or 3rd world countries and their scrutiny to curious. kind of new type is thinking. a hotel or you could really see. similar houses might be too late. in half the town to be moved to the new set by now but the power struggle and money greed didn't do much money are to. our town and putting their parking. in just as good of the earth even though it's both
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ah i see nothing the doctor from nothing yeah yeah. but i. like people who. do. you. know if somebody can get out to church a day bring like 2 bags to you have some i for man with 2 or 3 bags this is for me this is for my sister this is for my brother to say you know what your jesus is the use of the gym doing open gym as well as he was handy to go during true demand on. the top floor. to. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of
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decouple initiatives you need to go if you just pull those new look at a lot of these older toyota you're pretty chilled into this are moving insurers to be on your boat it will show you switch to all of them plus took a little girl out of this group through sure the coke with full attention you. point of their beautiful at them. we're going. to put so that the new. duran dish. for. gaston jenny. gould. when you're in the water with you're the oldest of us with lucy to be able to us duck look i don't know to just what else libby speech you could you will know when you are going in the always.
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i. scaled down celebrations this year people say at a difficult 2020 and welcome the new year with hopes of a brighter 12 months a. politician's passport companies develop mobile apps to enforce compliance is coming with warnings too that such systems face significant complications. for us and just 2021 with a grim new. daily death toll to report from new york city coming up a place particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
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