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Climate Change Affecting the Inuit - Ellie Mckellar

What's the Issue?

What's the Issue?

The last 16 years have has the lowest ice mass since a satalight began keeping track in 1979. Sea ice in this part of the world now covers a third less than it did only a decade ago. Weather patterns are crazy and extreme, and winter lasts about 6 weeks less than usual. In many ways this affects the Inuit who have lived in the Northern regions for centuries, as they rely on the ice for their way of life.

Ice Loss

The Arctic warming at more than twice the global rate, causing ice to melt at an alarming rate more than scientests had predicted . Arctic sea ice is lost at a rate of 13% per decade. Over the past 30 years the oldest and most dense ice has declined by 95%. At this rate the arctic could be without ice by summer 2040

PICTURES

Ice Mass Over Time

2012

September 12, 2012 when it covered an area of 2.91 million square kilometers. 2012 had the lowest ice mass ever recorded in history. 2020 was the second lowest in history at 3.82 million square kilometers on Sept.12.

1980

August 26, 1980 when it covered an area of 7.01 million square kilometers. This is 1980's ice minimum.

Timeline

2000

September 10, 2000 when it covered an area of 5.512 million square kilometers. This is 2000's ice minimum.

Adapting to Climate Change

Inuit Climate Change Stratagy

As Climate change gets worse and the ice becomes less reliable the Inuit are forced to adapt to this new reality. The National Inuit Climate Change Strategy has been published as a collective Inuit plan for Climate action. With help from groups such as the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) and the Inuvialuit Community Economic Development Organization (ICDEO) the Inuit look to make changes to improve their sustainability. By following these climate change stratagies the Inuit will have a better chance at surviving in their changing environment.

5 Priority Areas

National Inuit Climate Change Stratagy Priorities

Envisionment

The Inuit look to have Self-sufficient communites that don't face the amount of inequalities that they do now compared to the rest of Canada. While maintaining their resource security, they also want to support climate iniciatives for the upcoming youth. Regions need to work together to manage the impact climate change has on their communitues and help maintain their way of life. The Inuit want to ensure they are activly participating in global discussions and remain apart of finding solutions moving forward.

The Goal

Community Based Approach

Ex 1. Food Security

As temperatures rise and traditional ways of storing food becomes unreliable, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) are installing industrial community freezers in each Inuit community. Solar pannels are being installed on some of the freezers creating renewable energy. The ICDEO has also invested in a food processing facility and provide food processing training. This will increase accessibility to nutritious food that the communities are now lacking.

How are the Inuit affected?

The Inuit rely on the ice for many things such as their traditions, hunting, and travel. With the amount of ice rapidly decreasing it is threatening the Inuit way of life. They have to change their routines/ways of surviving to be able to adapt to the changing climate and rising sea levels. Their traditions won’t be able to continue without the ice. Therefore, culture will be lost.

Inability to Hunt

Food Insecurity

Inuit fear their skills that have been passed down for genorations wil be forgotten and become useless in this new melted world. Their ancestors knew a frozen world where they learned to live and hunt. As certain specise struggle to adapt to their new environment changed by climate, their population is decreasing. The Inuit are finding it difficult to hunt enough food to feed their families, as they rely on hunting seals, fish, whales, cariboo, and seals. Turning to overpriced grocery stores for food, it is becoming too expencive to afford food they once didn't need to buy. The ice has beecome an unrealiable and in some cases an unsafe place to hunt.

Lacking Acsess to Food

Food Insecurity

It has become simply imposible and much too dangerous to hunt on the thin ice. Dangerous or non-existant ice means The Inuit cannot go out to hunt seals, whales, and the caribou that once migrated across the ice. Now buying food from unaffordable grocery stores afford has caused a lack of acess to healthy food and a food shortage. Grocery stores in these areas cost $29 just for a jug of Sunny D and more than $25 per pound of steak. The prices are simply unaffordable and has resaulted in one-two thirds of households lack acsess to safe and healthy food.

Getting Cut Off

Communities Being Cut Off

The ice connects communities and without it many (especially hunters) feel trapped without the ability to travel across it. The ice has become unreliable and when a bay doesn’t freeze up, a community can be left cut off, without access to others. Rigolet is a former trading post home to the southernmost Inuit community in Canada, and the melting ice is a very real reality to them. Rigolet doesn’t have any roads connecting them to other communities and instead relied on paths in the ice for travel. Unfortunately these paths have become increasingly dangerous due to thawing, weak ice with sudden breaks, and dangerous openings. Rigolet is not the only community that often finds themselves cut off, and it is a sad reality.

Risk of Being a Hunter

New Danger

When hunters go missing on the unreliable sea ice, it is now the women’s responsibility to care for the family alone. This is a risk all hunters must take everytime they go out just to be able to feed their families. Without the hunter, the family will struggle to survive. What was once a much safer way of life has now become dangerous and continues to change for the worse.

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