The tribal fishermen in the Pacific Northwest have watched their salmon harvest decline by more than 80% in the past decades. The impacts of climate change are sending the salmon toward extinction. One Indian tribe is suing the Environmental Protection Agency.
I once had a client in Massachusetts who was good friends with the Algonquin people of the Cape Cod region. He repeated their outlook often, which he steadfastly tried to live by: "Do nothing that would cause harm to the seventh generation yet unborn." That is a time frame of approximately 200 years. I have since found this sentiment in other native cultures.
I hope they win their case. One thing. Ice shelves melting do not directly add to sea level rise, it is that they hold back the ice that is currently on land. It is the melting of the ice still on land that raises sea levels. And Antarctica holds enough water as ice that when it melts sea level will rise 200 feet. Bye Bye every coastal city in the world., though by that time there will also be no food and the fires will have burned all the forests.
I once had a client in Massachusetts who was good friends with the Algonquin people of the Cape Cod region. He repeated their outlook often, which he steadfastly tried to live by: "Do nothing that would cause harm to the seventh generation yet unborn." That is a time frame of approximately 200 years. I have since found this sentiment in other native cultures.
I hope they win their case. One thing. Ice shelves melting do not directly add to sea level rise, it is that they hold back the ice that is currently on land. It is the melting of the ice still on land that raises sea levels. And Antarctica holds enough water as ice that when it melts sea level will rise 200 feet. Bye Bye every coastal city in the world., though by that time there will also be no food and the fires will have burned all the forests.