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17 Cards in this Set
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Klamath Basin restoration agreement goals
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- restore and sustain natural fish production and provide for full participation in ocean and river harvest opportunities of these fish
- Establish reliable water and power supplies for agricultural use, communities, and national wildlife refuges in the Upper Klamath Basin - Contribute to public welfare and sustainability of all communitiries through reliable water supply, affordable electricity, offset property tax loss, address economic development, efforts to support tribal fishing and long term economic self sufficiency |
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Scientific Consensus on climate change
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- US environmental protection agency increase by: 2-11.5 Fahrenheit
- Range reflects different climate models and different assumptions about carbon emissions |
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High to Low emissions, how screwed are we?
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Even under low emissions temperature will go up
Native American people, especially in rural areas, are among the first to directly experience the effects of climate change |
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Impacts in the arctic 1-3
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Melting sea ice, glaciers, and permafrost
Fires More insects and other pests |
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Impacts in the arctic 4-6
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Flooding
Droughts Species extinction - polar bears are now a threatened category |
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Warmer temperatures will result in
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- sea ice melting
- permafrost is thawing |
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Effects of warmer temperature results
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- erosion inceasing
- homes on permafrost now unstable - drinking water contaminated - ice cellars for food unusable |
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Sea Ice
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Reflects solar light back into space, keeping polar regions cool
- rising temperatures melt sea ice - more solar energy is absorbed, further raising temperatures |
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Canary in Coal mine example regarding inuit people
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- immediate and local impacts on inuit people living in Arctic are diagnostic of larger effects with global implications
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Advantages of Indigenous People
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- Traditional knowledge
- Sovereignty - Community - Resilience |
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Inuit hunters document (Sila Inuk project)
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- thinner ice
- changes to permafrost, runoff patterns - movement of animal populations - rising sea level - more extreme tidal fluctuations |
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Sovereignty (Sila Inuk Project)
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Many tribes recognized as a sovereign
specific rights and powers are important to tribal governments allowing them to lay out plans and react to these issues |
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Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (Yolo County) and there enterprises
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Very powerful people who offer things to the community as well as:
Solar array and Hydrogen fuel cells provide 20% peak demand Natural gas pipeline reduces truck deliveries Biodiesel and clean diesel uses |
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Community
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Close Knit extended families that take care of each other in times of need
- potentially a mechanism to implement environmentally friendly practices political solidarity becomes easier within the family |
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Resiliance
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Native people have faced massive ecological and economic changes in the past, yet many cultures have survived against the odds
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Actions suggested by Grossman 1-3
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Information sharing with young and old
train people to deal with new species food security (sustainability) |
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Actions suggested by Grossman 4-6
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cooperation between native and local government
renewable energy joint land and emergency planning |
