Close your eyes and picture your best memory with your family and friends. Have it in mind? If you’re like me, that memory is filled with the warmth and comfort of a familiar home. I hope that, unlike me, you are never asked to put a price on that home.
Welcome to Shishmaref, Alaska, population: 650. We’re a small Iñupiaq community where everyone knows each other. Shishmaref is a barrier island that has been eroding and flooding for the past 50 years, even before climate disruption was widely recognized. Over the past 35 years, we’ve lost 2,500 to 3,000 feet of land. I was born in 1997—over the course of my lifetime, Shishmaref has lost about 100 feet of land. http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2015-6-november-december/green-life/life-edge-climate-change?mostpopular=true
Article courtesy of sierraclub.org by Esau Sinnok
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