Just yesterday we heard about how proud the Japanese people are of their unique fine-tuned sense of the four seasons. Now the word out of Sapporo is that “indigenous peoples” are experiencing “unique fear” over the impacts of changes in the climate.
SAPPORO — Indigenous peoples will be the hardest hit by climate change because of their dependence on “Mother Earth,” Ben Powless, a native Mohawk from Canada, told a convention of nongovernmental organizations Monday.
In one of the subcommittees at the People’s Summit 2008, also called the Alternative Summit, Powless said climate change will harm indigenous peoples all over the world with food insecurity, decreased water resources and loss of cultural sites and traditions.
Damn it’s a drag being a sensory-deprived non-indigenous non-Japanese. . . I feel a unique sense of ennui coming on. . .
