Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Change Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.
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Newtok, Alaska, was supposed to be a model for climate relocation. So what went wrong?
Listen to KYUK and ProPublica reporter Emily Schwing explain how the challenges of moving the town off a bed of thawing permafrost highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.
“The fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem,” one climate adaptation consultant told us.
Read the full story here: https://propub.li/4kVve8p
Story co-published with The Washington Post. Photography by Ash Adams for The Washington Post.
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Thank you for all your hard work bringing this to light!
Would have been nice to hear the actual locals being interviewed.
Good video
I grew up in Alaska and still have a lot of friends and family there. Most of them don't care about what's going on with the indigenous people north of them but the second Anchorage had a bad winter with no snow they all start screaming. It's very frustrating.
Maybe if ignorant people would have listened 20 years ago, we could have slightly reversed this. I'm afraid we might be too late, but there is no giving up regardless, or am I canceling out my own thoughts?
Thank you for your work. Let’s be clear. The reason so-called leaders are doing nothing about climate change in the US is because it affects the poor the most. And the GOP regime has made it very clear they do not care about those at the low income end. It’s all about serving the rich.
Sounds like BS
The earth is not warming. The poles are shifting. And A LOT of weather manipulation by our .gov / deepstate
Climate change has happened throughout the history of mankind. How can people be so shallow not to realize things are always changing, including our climate!
This isn’t manmade and even if it were, no one is going to stop it
All homes are temporary shelter as is life itself. We clever humans are adaptable and creative.
Thank you for such good and important reporting 👍
Welcome to GOP controlled America.
The only climate change is that which is man made via EMF & HAARP. US Air Force runs it.
Change is constant, this period which does appear almost certainly an interglacial warm spell, this is not typical and we may with all our emissions be speeding up a hotter period, putting off an ice age, or have no appreciable effect.
People without roads or many first worls conveniences have lived in huts with mould and other contaminants since they were living in caves and any semi-permanent strutcure. Many of the poor in damp countries live with mouldy decacying housing stuck and have done so since records begain – long before the industrial revolution and the period claimed to be affected by mans emissions.
What an incrediblely valuable piece of reporting! Thank you!
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Best off to get ahead of the game now.
There is absolutely no stopping what's coming.
I wonder if Neaderthals reported on climate change during the Eemian interglacial.
This is so sad. Thank you for being a witness and reporting on this.
You’re acting like the US ever gave a flying fuck about Native people.