User:Wilentja/Climate change and indigenous peoples

This section needs to be organized better. In office hours, I mentioned creating a new article titled "Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic" but would like further feedback from my classmates. I also changed the way I went about editing this article. I originally was going to add different bits of information to strengthen each section of the article, such as Asia, Africa, and Disproportionate impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples, but I am now going to delve deeper on the Arctic section (especially because I am doing my final group project in this area).

-Ask about Zotero and Edit vs. Edit Source (I originally could not find the Edit button, so I copied from Edit Source)

Climate change is having the most dramatic impact on the Arctic with a temperature increase twice the magnitude of the increase in the rest of the world. [17] This is resulting in significant sinking of the ice in the Arctic Sea. Satellite images of the ice show that it currently has the smallest area in recorded history.[13] If left unchecked, climate change in the Arctic will lead to a faster rise in sea level, more frequent and increasingly intense storms and winds, further decreases in the extent of sea ice, and increased erosion due to higher waves.[18]


 * This paragraph is worded in a pretty awkward way. Here is how I would rearrange it/ add to it:

Climate change impacts the Arctic in the most dramatic way as temperatures here are increasing at twice the magnitude of the rest of the world. [17] The Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS) mentioned the need for circumpolar political coordination to address climate change, but it did not explicitly take action.  It instead believed global cooperative bodies should handle climate change, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 

This consequence of climate change will have a number of effects on the Inuit people in a variety of ways. Eroding coasts and thinning ice have changed the migration patterns of the numerous animal species such as killer whales, marine polar bears, caribou, and seals.[19] Seals are one of the numerous animals hunted by the Inuit people upon which they depend. The seals are just one of the various species whose population is diminishing due to melting of ice sheets on which they are dependent for raising their young on. Additionally, the rapid melting of the sea ice creates a more hazardous and unpredictable terrain to hunt in, posing a new risk within their subsistence economy.[20]

Simultaneously, increased temperatures and melting permafrost will make it harder for Inuit people to freeze and store food in their traditional way. Furthermore, climate change will bring new bacteria and other micro-organisms to the region, which will bring yet unknown effects to the Peoples of the region.[13]

One example of the Indigenous groups acting in response to climate change in the Arctic was the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council taking action regarding the decline in the polar bear population that was directly linked to the decline in ice sheets for them to live on.[19] The Alaska Natives rely on polar bears and cohabit with them and through their Indigenous knowledge have contributed to the co-management with the U.S. federal government to increasing and improving conservation efforts regarding the popular megafauna.[21][22]

Nilsson, Annika E., et al. CLIMATE CHANGE. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2016, pp. 8–10, Organizational Learning in Regional Governance: A Study of the Arctic Council, www.jstor.org/stable/resrep02832.8. Accessed 19 Oct. 2020.