Indigenous Peoples to Discuss Climate Change.

I came across this article on adn.com today and it stood out to me as a very logical attempt to acknowledge and hopefully come up with solutions to a rising problem. Here is the link if anyone desires to actually read the article, but my plan is to try and explain it the best I can. The confrence that is sponsored by the United nations will include about 400 people from 80 different rural areas from around the world. They are going to discuss the recent changes in climate and ways to potentially prevent further damage and ways to stop what is occuring. Although the United nations is sponsoring the event, it is the Inuit Circumpolar Council that is actually holding it. They are so concerned because as the article stated that people in rural areas, or rather, people that portray and live a leaver lifestyle is the population that is hurting the climate/polution issues of the world the LEAST. It is also these populations and leaver peoples that will be impacted the most by this change in climate. I believe this is so true and that our class has discussed this many times in our conversations of destructive behavior of the Taker lifestyle and the respectable behavior of the leaver lifestyle. The people putting on this confrence are aiming at trying to get government involved and listening to their cause. They want government to be active in stopping the polution that is occuring as well as lawmakers involved because they have a large voice in our society today. Basically, the rural and indigenous people of the world want a larger voice to stand up for what is right and decrease the destructive nature of the Taker lifestyle. Bravo, round of applause! I think this is wonderful and hope they succeed.
-tootles
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