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1. Climate Change and Ecological Grief in the Indigenous Communities of the Arctic thread 
#ProtectTheArctic #ClimateGrief #Indigenous #39CSustain @39CSustain
#ProtectTheArctic #ClimateGrief #Indigenous #39CSustain @39CSustain
2. Climate change is affecting the Arctic at an extremely alarming rate and its effects are being observed earlier than the rest of the world. #CallToEarth
3. As the Arctic continues to warm at a rate almost twice the global average, sea-levels continue to rise and reductions in sea-ice and permafrost grow extremely visible. #ProtectTheArctic (3/18)
4. The average temperature in the Arctic has increased 2.3°C since the 1970’s, affecting many ice dependent species and Indigenous communities.
5. This study by Laura Landrum and Marika M. Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, explains how the Arctic is shifting to a different climate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/climate/arctic-changing-climate.html
6. Global Sea levels are also affected as they have risen 4-8 inches in the past century and melting Arctic ice is expected to speed this rise.
7. This article informs us on experts estimating the oceans to rise as much as 23 feet by 2100 and how oil in the ocean is a product of big corporation’s oil dependence. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/arctic/issues/global-warming/
8. NASA also gives us statistics on melting sea ice, informing us that the Arctic’s sea ice is now declining at 13.1% per decade. Satellites also show that ice sheets are losing mass at a rate of 427 billion metric tons per year. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
9. Patterns in ice coverage have dropped beyond anything that was imagined decades ago and has declined so much that even an extremely cold year couldn’t result in the same amount of ice from decades ago.
10. The effects of global warming don’t only affect the environment, but the many Indigenous communities that rely on the Arctic’s cold tundra climate. Indigenous communities make up 10% of the Arctic’s population with 40 different ethnic groups. https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/arcticregion/Arctic-Indigenous-Peoples
11. Indigenous communities, such as the Inuit and Gwichʼin, have already been victims of substantial changes due to the globalization of the western way of life and state policies.
12. Now they must undergo the effects of climate change, moving inland and learning how to adapt as climate change begins to play a big role in knowledge disconnect.
13. These Indigenous communities hold extremely strong ties to their land. As they fight for protection against climate change, they also fight for their right to continue their historical and cultural way of life, just like their ancestors.
14. They feel a sense of homesickness without leaving their homes in the Arctic. This can be described as the psychological distress of solastalgia. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/15/arctic-solastalgia-climate-crisis-inuit-indigenous
15. Ecological Grief is a big consequence of climate change in the Indigenous communities of the Arctic. By suffering the loss of ice and being forced to move inland, they grow fearful and feel grief as their environment changes.
16. While learning how to adapt to this changing climate and world, their sense of tradition is lost and an emotional state is found. When their homes are destroyed, a part of their identity is as well. #Indigenous #ClimateGrief. .
17. Maatalii Okalik, a former National Inuit Youth Council president and a political advocate for Indigenous peoples around the world, fights to protect her community’s culture and climate. https://www.popsugar.com/news/how-climate-change-is-affecting-inuit-population-47877138
18. Us humans are the most at fault for these harmful climatic changes. Saving the Arctic must matter to everyone because climate change isn’t more obvious anywhere else. The Arctic helps regulate the world’s temperature. The more ice that melts, the warmer the world becomes.
19. It's more important than ever to limit the damage of climate change. #CallToEarth #ProtectEarth
This starts with limiting/ eliminating the use of fossil fuels and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, changing our lifestyles and using our voices as our most powerful weapon against environment exploiters and corporate profit. #CallToEarth
20. It's important to fight for sufficient policies as they are a huge aspect of saving our planet. When we elect people in power that are devoted to solving climate change, laws can be passed to limit fossil fuel use and protect communities in disaster-prone areas.
21. To learn more about climate change, what is currently being done and how to protect the Arctic, go here! https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/national-policies-key-climate-action-arctic/
