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children and grandchildren. But for
how much longer?
The 75-year-old hunter said: “In
2008 the sea did not freeze for the first
time. Years ago, we could hunt for 25
or 30 miles on the sea ice; now only
the fjord ices over. We have a lot of fear
that one day we can’t use our dogs any
more. Still we have no idea how it will
be. I cannot imagine it.”
But while the thinning ice has made
it difficult for him to hunt traditional
Arctic animals, he smiled as he told us
of the benefit of the temperature rise.
“This year I’ve been able to grow
potatoes in my garden for the first
time,” he said.
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@NadaFarhoudharpoon and hunting rifle, and it
shows. Wooden platforms and
balconies are festooned with bits of
dead animals – including skulls,
bones, flesh and pelts – that sustain
life in the long, dark winters.
The soft pelts of silver foxes, arctic
hares and the tougher fur of polar
bears are protection against the cold
and wet conditions.
The only shopping opportunities
arrive thanks to tourist cruise ships
periodically mooring in the bay.
This is the home of Ikuo Oshima,
the son of a Japanese farmer who
came to Greenland in 1972 to climb
mountains, fell in love with the
wilderness and an Inuit woman, and
stayed to swell the population with 11can hit -43C, it is hard to see how the
community will survive without the ice.
The village, the most northerly
civilian settlement in the world, is a
cluster of 30 wooden huts and houses
beneath the bare flanks of a mountain
where a glacier once ran. This is a
community that depends on thethe town, resulting in damaged roads.
As many as half of the homes could be
pulled down in the next 10 years. And
as the ground thaws, the soil, rocks
and sand decompose and emit CO
and methane, fuelling climate change.
When I go further north to the
hunting village of Siorapaluk, where itTRAGIC
DUTY
Tobias has
had to put
down dogsSwitching to
imported pork
and fast-food
means more
weight issues
and diabetes
DR KENT KLIENSCHMIDT
ON IMPACT OF CHANGING DIETSDECLINE Dog
numbers have
halved in 5 yearsUNCERTAIN
FUTURES
Girl poses
with a sled
dog puppyPAIN Rasmus lost
dogs and works in
supermarket nowJust listen to
the science,
Mr President
WAVE Greta Thunberg arrives in NYWELCOME Young fans held up signsBY NADA FARHOUD
Environment Editor
TEENAGE climate activist Greta
Thunberg arrived in New York City to
chants and cheers after a trans-
Atlantic trip on a yacht to attend a
global warming conference.
Greta, 16, and her crew spent two
weeks crossing from Plymouth after
she refused to fly because of the
carbon cost of plane travel.
The teenager is in New York to
speak at the United Nations Climate
Action Summit next month.
Upon her arrival in New York, Greta
was asked whether she had a
message for President Donald Trump.
She said: “My message for him is
just: listen to the science. And he
obviously doesn’t do that.”
Speaking after she landed on
Wednesday, Greta said the trip was
not as uncomfortable as she
expected and she did not get seasick.
But she stressed that “this is not
something I want everyone to do”.
She said: “It is insane that a
16-year-old would have to cross the
Atlantic Ocean to make a stand.
“The climate and ecological crisis
is a global crisis, the biggest crisis
that humanity has ever faced, and if
we don’t manage to work together,
despite our differences, we will fail.”
Greta has become a symbol of a
growing movement of young climate
activists, leading weekly protests in
Sweden that inspired similar strikes
in about 100 cities worldwide.
Her father, Svante Thunberg,
crossed the ocean with her. “He had
to, because I had made up my mind I
was going to go and he has to take
care of me,” Greta said.under the sun
BIG NIGHT OUT Children play out late24, it won’t rise again until February 17.
Residents talk of the “flip”, when they
stay awake all night, then sleep all day.
The sun returns fast, gaining 20
minutes more light a day until
mid-April and the first midnight sun.