Hanh mitakuyapi. I was asked by Azti to post on Global Warming. It being a big subject, it will have many parts.
Since he asked me to talk about it from the Traditional perspective as well as from facts, we’ll start there. The basic question being, “Is this a real phenomenon or a scam?” Trust me – global warming is real .
Whatever a handful of washichu dummies did to manipulate data is irrelevant. Global warming is real. There are too many reliable people keeping track of such things who have published good data for it to all be a scam. Also, herding scientists is a lot like herding cats, Indns, or buffalo. For every ‘expert’ who is for sale or intimidatable, there are a dozen who are not; maybe more. And of course, there are the prophesies of all the IndigenUs cultures of the world, including Turtle Island. From Australia to Zimbabwe, every culture’s Traditions speak of this happening.
And if nothing else, there’s the horrendous increase in human population & human activity of every heat-forming kind. Everything in the universe being finite, it is only reasonable that we will see rises in the temperature of the biosphere. Currently, our Holy Mother the Earth is carrying over twice as many humans as She is built to provide a decent living for, while including the nearly numberless variety of other species; the Inyan Oyate (Rock Nation), the Inaji Oyate (Standing Nation / anything that grows on the earth), the Mni Oyate (Water People), the Hupahu Oyate (Winged People), the Hu Takunisni Oyate (those with no legs)… We’re all in this canoe together & it leaks. It leaks because of humans’ arrogance; especially the majority culture’s. Read my post on Arrogance in my posts about being a Pipe Keeper for more on arrogance & the results of it.
In 2000, volcanic activity worldwide suddenly began to increase. By 2005, the Aleuts had moved off their Traditional homeland – the ‘what’ Islands? – to places far inland on the continent, where their Traditional Prophesies have taught for eons they will be safeR. Not ‘safe’ – “safeR”.
Everyone’s prophecies teach that when certain things happen, the world as we know it will end. And it will not be pretty. Many of those things have happened or continue to happen, such as clear-cutting rain forests in Canada and South America. Driving Hummers. Over-fishing. Etc.
And bad changes continue to occur throughout the biosphere. Some are things humans are doing or not doing; others are in response. It doesn’t matter – in the long run, the net effect is the same. Nasty.
Five or six years ago, a friend of mine who is Inupiat, & is married to a Yupik man, emailed me a stunner… not only were their summers much longer & warmer, but that morning when the family woke up, they found they couldn’t get out their cabin door. It seems their cabin had dropped into the tundra several feel during the night! The door was blocked. Windows in cabins on the tundra are very small, of course. Their 10-year-old son managed to get out through a window & they passed him a coat, then he got a shovel & began digging out the doorway enough for the rest of the family to get out & finish the job! Then they had to face raising the cabin up out of the hole. Think about that. It boggles the mind.
To build a cabin on the tundra means making a pad of logs for it to sit on. A bit of melting every summer is expected. Everything up there sits on pads of logs.
I have no clue how they got the Internet, but my guess is some kind of satellite link. The generator sits on its own pad, which was lucky or they’d have had no heat for the night. Summers way up there are still cold at night…
As I recall, when she emailed me she said (a) to not expect to hear from her for awhile & (b) if I had any ideas to send them fast because they needed them. Being of an engineering bent, I had some, so sent them, & we all got lucky & it helped. But they still had their work cut out for them. Raising a house is a huge job no matter if it’s a piece at a time or…
And of course there are all their other buildings, including their privy -
For me, that pretty much defines “global warming & its dangers”.
Mitakuye oiasin – All {are} my relatives. Another way of saying “there is no us or them – there’s only us, & we’re all in this together. No virgins involved.” For anyone who wants to scoff at environmentalists, call them names, etc… they may be a bit off in left field on somet hings, but overall, they’re on the right track. The scoffers need to get rid of their sophomorism & join the parade. We Traditionals are the original environmentalists – who else would automatically refer to the earth as Our Holy Mother? Used to be, before “modernism”, everyone was our way; i.e., environmentally oriented. Think about that…