Indigenous knowledge of a changing climate
@article{Green2010IndigenousKO, title={Indigenous knowledge of a changing climate}, author={Donna Green and Gleb Raygorodetsky}, journal={Climatic Change}, year={2010}, volume={100}, pages={239-242} }
Anthropogenic climate change is perhaps the ultimate manifestation of humans’ growing disconnect with the natural world, although not all societies share the same burden of responsibility for its creation. Compared to the dominant industrialised societies whose activities in the last 200 years or so have caused most of the climate impacts currently observed, Indigenous people living on their traditional lands bear little responsibility for current and future projected consequences of a changing…
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