Thursday, March 30, 2017

Tragedy of a Village Built on Ice- Emma Lochabay

Residents of a small Alaskan village voted this week to relocate their entire community from a barrier island that has been steadily disappearing because of erosion and flooding attributed to climate change.It has been grappling for decades with the loss of buildings and infrastructure caused by storm surges, and it has shrunk over the past 40 years — more than 200 feet of the shore has been eaten away since 1969.

This article was published on CNN, a popular and trustworthy news site, on March 30, 2017. I know i can trust it to not include any bias in its published information. Before reading this article, i have heard about this on the tv news but not enough information to have an effect on my understanding. This is important because it is regarding the potential loss of homes and people in a town. This could synthesize to when the time the town Shaktoolik, Alaska was destroyed by rising sea levels caused by climate change.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/us/sutter-shishmaref-esau-tragedy/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

7 comments:

  1. It's so sad that an entire village would have to move their community due to climate change. However, I'm glad they will all be in a safer space.

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  2. So horrible that climate change is reducing this people to where their only resort is to move. I hope they will be safe and comfortable in they new environment.

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  3. This is a great synthesis! It is so terrible that we are having such an issue of climate change!

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  4. Global Warming continues to increase.

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  5. That's so scary for all those people that have homes in that area! I agree with Abbey in that it's tragic that they are being forced to move because of something that they can't control! I hope they find somewhere safe and nice to live as well.

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  6. Things like this happen, yet our current president claims that "global warming doesn't exist"

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  7. Help me Al Gore! My island is melting! Save me Al Gore!

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