tv Documentary RT January 1, 2021 6:30pm-7:01pm EST
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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 and. following 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.
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and my grandfather. used to say is new or become one big. salary in ny and. the river around us and high wind comes in. it's like this one big island surrounded by the lodger. feel like it's getting danger danger every time it gets close. to us who knowns this one is one big ventilates can come out snap. just where on the permafrost are on the permafrost and new pockets it's really heavy you know. from disciplined keeps coming off the ice than that and.
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3 years. i think. not to bugger 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 rises we are that is because of the state words hours 2 weeks carrots 4 years. i would like will move across the river are because it's higher ground i think people who are thinking about stay here forget that it floods here in the. people who need to be prepared for every student by some careful.
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not to see place. 2 below one in which both patrols i am 1000 years old and i am promised my old village called new talk when 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 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 time. i have been in need talk strictly all my life and it has always been the same movie
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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 to. rid of into doesn't do we lost 150 feet of land from water washing the land to nurse on to the water's about a 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 force or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. all the land just falls down and. cannot pick.
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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 surely we hunted buckets was which is a 5 gallon bucket for him and wished that we don't get down into the water when 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 the possible to might lose this battle. we'll just want to sit at a table no just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. 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 heirs were mainly for trade with that trade of course and government and so with the government came 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
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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 to and sip their children off to boarding school if they didn't live near the school so the challenge began. in that initial contact. i think were part of a 1st for murmur. were. you know when you had to go over the layers of. what started this problem there was a bar. the 1950s i was bringing the school for i used to. work
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in the parts. you're. the wrong side of. this. road. for school. from your star. hard to understand what psychological impacts where and they said you no longer could do that to that and if you don't come here or 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
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oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh never trust this down now what is happening into the permafrost ended up. now you know 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 local walk to be happy because that's where you guys don't your honey but 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 i was close you were close 35 feet of gravel in just about 3 months
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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. 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. prompted by this river here moving into routing their communities.
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these new groups are from the outside mostly. from the community they're not originally from new to. sit through troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom 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 the other so my name is strongly tom i'm very troubled minister for a new car for this and comes. to be
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a. ward and you will its council it's a new entity there was a election dispute. in october condit told. the new car traditional council. somebody who works there. said we've never had a. quite a while. and it's an accident these are you working accused of not having 8 years 8 to 9 years from election we proved them wrong we had election 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 election there was a there was a feeling that the community was being left out of the process yeah they were
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scheduled to leave in 2012. but through the division and the infighting and some of the you know bureaucratic issues just being stalled as it stands now the federal government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was the basic. he took the contract out of the. lease. 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 in our family structure room smolders
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you know this interior room and everything else is kind of one ramp through the village and at certain times for not one full. 40. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the 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 and this is home there's no running water was all over so. it's a very crowded. the
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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. we came in 20072008 school year. since. the move in the village then. everybody in the good smell you could much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we know 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 lies. we can see the land working away.
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back home they have these here we have hurricanes. and help people move in you do whatever you want to do and just sing like i just taken forever i mean you almost begin 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 all for you. we all. human is it all it's just a little village 3300 people there's nobody got enough so i don't think it's no big deal is a big big deal it's their lives. gun
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. there are still look at their last years or another 3rd world country. even though it's united states i see a part of america. they might be americans or diggers or 3rd world country and their sphincter need to curious. kind of new type is thinking. the whole time you could really see it. so how is might be too late. we shouldn't have to tell us even moved to the new set by now but the power struggle and money greed. too much money are to. our power line and putting in their parking.
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my. nothing to the top nothing yeah yeah. but i. like people. who look if somebody can get out to church a day bring like 2 bags so 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 did he said to sneeze at the gym doing open just as well as he wants candy to go under the tree in bed on. top floor.
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every year with great pleasure answer questions from our viewers and this year is no joke but as usual your questions focus on future. americans love. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that
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question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. and i noticed that at 1st the usual. when you have australian visual there you go this route you have to. give me the measure up to the nearest union. and if it's you i need to. study did you go to lived in the church must. insist was right seems to me. i did you need to go to church for this new look at a lot of these old that i don't see a pretty chilled or is certainly a choice of your voters will show you such today with a massive show in the us took the little girl out of this thread who flew with sure the coke with full attention you. want of soup they're beautiful you're the morsi
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we're going there. you know they mean. to put so that the new word in the. qur'an dish to their share for. gas to jam just. be asleep when you're in the morning with you're the oldest of us with less meat in your address dark blue god doesn't it you just what. your pride you will know when you are going in the usual what he's. the one else seemed wrong all right all the roles just don't call. any role yet to shape out these days the conflict as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when something find
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