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Welcome! Indigenous peoples stand to be among the most affected by global climate change. They are often among the poorest communities in their countries, and have few economic resources to deal with the impacts of climate change. They are tied intimately with their collective lands through their cosmology, history and spirituality from which removal to escape climate impacts threatens their cultural survival. Even were indigenous peoples willing to move to adapt to changing conditions, modern legal structures often confine them to reservations and define their rights to self-determination in relation to these areas. Climate change potentially faces them with the choice of staying and losing their culture as their traditional environments erode from under them, or move and break their collective identity and divorce themselves from their traditional homelands. At the same time, indigenous peoples have much historical knowledge about climate variability, and are keen observers of the environment, acting as an "early warning system" for environmental change. Indigenous peoples possess traditional knowledge that can provide clues to ecological baselines and environmental management practices that are resilient against climate variability. We welcome you to this site to express and explore indigenous views related to the potential impacts of climate change on indigenous cultural sustainability and cultural survival. Enter Forums: |
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