Fierce Climate Sacred Ground An Ethnography Of Climate Change In Shishmaref Alaska Elizabeth Marino by Elizabeth Marino 9781602232662, 1602232660 instant download after payment.

Publications from theNew York TimestoEsquirehave covered this disappearing village, yet few have taken the time to truly show the community and the two millennia of traditions at risk. InFierce Climate, Sacred Ground, Elizabeth Marino brings Shishmaref into sharp focus as a place where people in a close-knit, determined community are confronting the realities of our changing planet every day. She shows how physical dangers challenge lives, while the stress and uncertainty challenge culture and identity. Marino also draws on Shishmaref’s experiences to show how disasters and the outcomes of climate change often fall heaviest on those already burdened with other social risks and often to communities who have contributed least to the problem. Stirring and sobering,Fierce Climate, Sacred Groundproves that the consequences of unchecked climate change are anything but theoretical.