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didn't. seem. to really. get his to the. better. 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
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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. salary in ny and. the river around us in one not high wind comes in. it's like this one big island surrounded by the lodge or.
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it's on everybody's mind. and party has 3 days we have to really carry. when i got here 10 years ago the people were saying. move within 4 years. and that was in the. statement. i've come to know you know the short leg world is going to tell us 3 years. i think. not to bugger hardly needs to kid i'm making would. 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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charles i am 1000 years old and i am from a small 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 to strictly all my life and it has always been the same movie year 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 line and
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a 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 force or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. playing. all the lands us paul down and. cannot pick up. 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 a 5 gallon bucket for human waste they really don't get down into the water when it
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is for. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change that like playing chess in a test checkmate us. we need to make a move because we have the possible to my to lose this battle. will just want to sit at a table know just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. laughing though it was 3rd cousins. life is too short to see a swim meet to the nearest village that's about 40 miles and orders to comb.
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you know their early contacts with the west 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 would probably you're rich or 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. and the way they were able to keep them there was to set 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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b.r.d. school brewery nor for school. from your star go. hard to understand what psychological impacts where and they said you no longer can to get through that 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 on it and the consequences are what we have today.
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humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before giant coming to us appearing in the peninsula. one after another. was never forgotten you for us to get you you put you know whom god love we don't have a debt he wants. this one appeared in 2020. how often and well will new creases appear so i just felt how dangerous oen day for humans from on my end is to both the 102021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they built a full scale 3 d.
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model of the black hole. while the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged with the we don't look like scene the whole world needs to be the chief . judge of. commentary crisis what is the sentence. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.
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her her her. that her frost is down now what is happening into the permafrost who did not see it sounds he knows it did because it's melting it causes a religion so how many people have gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish know full well i'll be happy because that's where you guys don't your honey but i could say yeah but if you do walk along there by what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to supporting my class last
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semester in the fall we went out there and we measured how much the religion was how much you think we lost last year he. we lost about 35 feet i was 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 35 feet closer to the town and then left and it was the year before so you guys think that the rivers going yes. it's 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 i mean there's just no way around you know to travel councils families don't talk to each other
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just all kinds of issues that have popped up. prompted by this river here moving in . and routing their communities. these no groups or from outside. from the community they are not urgently from. troubled ministers actually 1st cousin tom and and family are 1st because it's a tradition versus you know the new prostitution all majority way of thinking so
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you have that tremendous divide different philosophies together and stanley represents one side and tom represents the other side my name is stanley tom i'm the trouble minister for a newcomer to this and comes recently i was selected to be a missionary ward in your will it's schoolteaching new entity there was a election dispute. in october on day 12. the new cars from council. somebody who works there. said we've never had to. hide a while. and it's an accident yes you were being accused of not having it use 8 to 9 years of election when we moved in we had election and all these i know it was coming up. and some of the smarter words began following the money and
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realizing some of the money's not accounted for while they actually suspended the elections. well once they suspended the elections though 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 government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of the. 88. it's a shack when it comes down to some 3rd world check it's basically. a last resort
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for people who want to live in really tough. going from. is created a lot of problems health what is the no we've been to the clinic several times and are very much struck really small to see you know this interior and everything else is kind of one ramp through the village at certain times or not you want to. call it. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the 1st ration levels fairly high. still 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
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united states number just. and this is all there's no running water whatsoever so. it's a chronic. bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers calm 12 years and they leave they don't never studied. i guess is just a culture shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. those moved in the village then. everybody roots mill you couldn't much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now you could see the water.
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now. it's close we can see the ways bussin over 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 they were already and helped people move and do whatever they got to do is just saying 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 you know 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 it's no big up and that's what i don't think it's no big deal is
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gun stores start at the same time place. most cars in syrup 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 states 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 gears of war country there is thinking need to curious. kind of new type is thinking. you could really see it.
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so how is might be too late. we should have sometimes even moved to the news. i know part of the power struggle and money greed to too much money are too. hard tyrone and putting their parker. oh he's just as good of the earth even though it's turned up oh the loony tunes of . 2 different councils think they're running the joy. beyond angry. out of nowhere. peers were. doing.
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a disease at the gym doing open gym as well as he wants candy to go under the tree and i don't. the top floor. 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. again at the risk of long no rush but us though up of stuff yes it got to school ways of going things on their way on the dock and scott back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is acting up a smuggler real lybia losing one by else a store run for by door to. so they decided to leave everything behind and start
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a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all and some of the american reared groups who earlier through reviewer knew in the ninety's period found great crowds. to moulay a good few you're going to foreclose you. know almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time he went to russia. on probable worst crime to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here. seem wrong why don't we all just all. the world that is yet to shape out of disdain and become educated and in gains from an equals betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just a look for common ground. this hour's headlines stories the european medicines agency urges countries to keep using the. vaccine insisting it's safe while also launching a probe into new cases of all unusual blood clots potentially things. just because. this had to be did i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have we made mistakes this is true a stark admission of feel years in. crisis by the french president the country imposes a 3rd national law.
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