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Related: About this forum'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/greenland-residents-traumatised-by-climate-emergency'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
Dan McDougall in Ilulissat and Tasiilaq, Greenland
Mon 12 Aug 2019 09.00 BST
The climate crisis is causing unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety to people in Greenland who are struggling to reconcile the traumatic impact of global heating with their traditional way of life.
The first ever national survey examining the human impact of the climate emergency, revealed in the Guardian on Monday, shows that more than 90% of islanders interviewed fully accept that the climate crisis is happening, with a further 76% claiming to have personally experienced global heating in their daily lives, from coping with dangerous sea ice journeys to having sled dogs euthanised for economic reasons tied to shorter winters.
The Greenlandic Perspectives Survey was carried out by the University of Copenhagens Center for Social Data Science, the Kraks Fond Institute for Urban Economic Research and the University of Greenland. The study samples almost 2% of the population, spanning an area almost three times the size of France. An equivalent study in the UK would involve a sample of almost 1 million citizens.
Scattered across 17 small towns and approximately 60 villages, all situated on a narrow coastal strip, Greenlands residents have often been overlooked by data science. The island faces some of the most acute social issues in the world with high levels of alcoholism and historically disproportionate rates of suicide.
According to its lead author, Kelton Minor, the survey finally gives Greenlands most remote and inaccessible communities a voice on the climate crisis.
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According to the data, detailed in a Guardian investigation carried out across Greenland in the last month, the majority of local residents interviewed believe that the climate emergency will harm its people, sled dogs, plants and animals. The revelation contradicts arguments that local people believe climate breakdown will benefit the Arctic and raises concern over a growing mental health crisis around climate in the polar region.
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'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency (Original Post)
nitpicker
Aug 2019
OP
I've been suffering from this for 15 years, ever since I woke up. I call it
The_jackalope
Aug 2019
#3
Duppers
(28,127 posts)1. We all will be joining them soon enough.
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)2. Too true
This is catastrophic.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)3. I've been suffering from this for 15 years, ever since I woke up. I call it
Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder