Alaska Village Faces Fuel Crisis (due to climate change)

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/feb/22/022205067.html

One of Alaska's most eroded coastal villages faces a new crisis: the closest river has become so shallow that barges can no longer make regular fuel deliveries to the remote community.

Running out of fuel in Newtok would be disastrous, say leaders of the Yupik Eskimo community of 315. Without fuel, villagers cannot power the snowmobiles and boats they need to search for such foods as seal and halibut, which are crucial to their survival.

"This is food we have to have to prepare for the whole wintertime," said acting tribal administrator Stanley Tom.

Flooding and erosion affects 184 out of 213 Alaska native villages to some extent, according to a 2003 report by the U.S. Government Accounting Office. Various studies indicate that rising temperatures are partly to blame, the report said.

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[poverlay]

1. They'll keep voting repug until they're frozen, starving and swimming... Then they'll blame

it on the enviromentalists.

[Nihil]

2. You should be a prophet.

Unfortunately, there is a well-known saying about prophets in their own land ...
:shrug: