Wednesday, February 27, 2008

First case to save eskimo community

Alaska's tiny village Kivalina sued two dozen oil companies. It is fight for living against the global warming and save the community. This community have less than 400 people. The village built on 8 mile of reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.

Sea ice provide them protection from storm. They lived on fishing,hunting whale, seal, walrus and caribou. The later substances formed due to ice which melt now very soon since rising in temperature.

According to City Administrator Janet Mitchel: they are seeing faster erosion due to loss of sea ice . They are facing open even in December earlier they see ice in October.

I think, it is first step to save the community which may loose there history and culture. There is talking to migrate them is feasible to spend 400 $ million. Now people can understand how close we are in Global warming effects.

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