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Feb 22

Q&A: What Can Indigenous People Tell Us About Climate Change?

An interview with Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution, about the knowledge that indigenous people have about the environmental changes in their home and how Western scientists can learn from them.

Q: How long have Arctic communities perceived climate change as a threat?

I.K.: First, it hasn’t been perceived as a threat. That’s very much today’s Western perspective. People are concerned with what is happening, but I haven’t heard them speaking about their environment as being “under threat.” [They describe it as] “a friend acting strangely.” It’s a friend that behaves a little bit weird, but doesn’t cease to be a friend because it’s your home.

Posted 3 months ago

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