tv Documentary RT April 4, 2021 11:30am-12:01pm EDT
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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 his new top will 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 so one big village it's can come out snap. to swear on the permafrost are on the permafrost and newtok it's it's really heavy you know. and to slant keeps coming off the ice than that and.
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to know you know the short leg world is going to toast 3 years. i think. not to bugger hardly needs to kick 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 rains weird that it's because of the state words hours 2 weeks carrick's 4 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. need to be prepared for every student by some careful.
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not to see place. or. 2 below when it was both patrols i am 19 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 a small place toto's about 350 people and we are trying to move to a place called most i'm humbled 200 miles under new tough. i have been in need talk to strictly all my life and it has always been the same
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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 ritual for us but most of time to. rig into doesn't do last 150 feet of land from water washing line and a nurse on to the water's about 100 yards we are going to have a disaster if we don't move. we need to at best soon as possible before the water just force or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. playing. all the land just falls down and. cannot pick up.
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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 earth or surely we hunted buckets was which is a 5 gallon bucket for him and wished it we don't get down into the water when it is for. according to the government its 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 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.
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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 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. and the 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 and 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 cox problem there was a bar. the 1950s i was bringing the school for i used to. work
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in the parts. have nots corner our floor clear. on the wrong side of. this. road. so do. you know for school. you're starting to 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
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a stop light on it and the consequences are what we have today. while the demick knows you know border is just blind to nationalities. as a. meat stick. comedy crisis least until. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges to response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.
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max geysers financial survival guide liquid assets are those that you can convert into and that's quite easily. to keep in mind though as a tremendous place and a large geyser board. 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 you know no rush for us though up most of us you've got to score woolsack on things on us at the cherry on the darkness scale back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that columbus month the real libya loses show 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
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who were to prove you're in the know if you heard around the crowd. to moulay a dwarf you you're going to call you and yell almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather towards a time when through russia. probable worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here. for. her or explain to her. playing her. that for us this down now what is happening into the permafrost it up now during it
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. you know they did it because it's melting it causes the rouge so how many people go down and walk 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 you know but if you do walk along there by what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to be disappearing into 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 while we were measuring. it is best 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 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 into routing their communities.
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these new groups are from outside the arts far from the community they are not urgently from. sit through troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and and family are 1st 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 you know. my name is totally calm the tribal minister for a new person comes. to be a ministry board and you will it's council it's a new entity there was a election dispute. in october condit told. the newcomer traditional council. somebody who works there. said we've
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never had to. hide a while. and it's an accident these are you working accuse of not having 8 years 8 to 9 years of election when we proved them wrong we had the electorate 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 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 they basically
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took the contract. he. is it's a shock 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 hear from. is created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times and are very much struck through smolders you know this interior and everything else is kind of one ramp through the villages at certain times for not wanting for gas. they're good enough. for you know.
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talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the frustration 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 who live in the united states number just sitting in this is home there's no running water was over so. it's a very crowded. in the bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers call 12 years and they leave they don't never study. and i guess it's just a cultural shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008
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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 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 roast. before the eyes. we can see the land working away. back home they have these here we have hurricanes. and help people move in you do whatever you got 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.
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and 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 are human and all it's just a little village 3300 people it's no big up and that's why i don't think it's no big deal is a big you do some big deal it's their lives. it's
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just started 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 he's going to have. her . 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. it might be americans or the gays or 3rd world countries
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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 should have sometimes even moved to the new set by now but the power struggle and money greed take too much money are too. hard tarleton and putting in their parking. lots i just stood. up oh the looney tunes of. 2 different telcel those think they're really doing.
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like people. who look if somebody can get out to church a day bring like 2 bags he'll have some eye for me and with 2 or 3 bags this is for me this is for my sister this is for my brother do you know what he said to see these at the gym doing open gym as well as he wants candy to go under the tree. for a lot. of . this and you know became the bottleneck is a volunteer species the movement that you see cooperation that is
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a government whose family. to this vision we said action on this lead before we go out there and socially. go so-called peace with the palestinians all against between so you. know those who say only. problem drugs don't do is come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invited america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did go separate dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers or the governments.
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