Selling IceBoxes to Eskimos

[Celandine]

Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic

Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures
to build communal deep freezers to store game, an Inuit leader said on Friday.

The Inuit, the indigenous people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, have traditionally hunted for
Arctic species from seal to polar bear, whale to caribou.

'Disappearing' culture

ICC chairman James Stotts says his 78-year-old uncle fell through the ice and froze to death at a time of
year when the ice normally would be thick and safe.

"Inuits have to find other ways to store their meat. Some of our villages are literally falling into the seas
because of erosion," he said.

ICC vice chairman, Aqqaluk Lynge, said that the ice cap is melting much faster than before, which would
raise ocean levels, reduce winter ice and threaten the Inuit way of life.

"That part of the culture is disappearing. We are paying for the changes already in many ways."

[jeryruse]

But if they need freezers because of global warming, won’t the new freezers CAUSE more warming which will in turn require MORE freezers?