Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5798529
AutoresP Schweitzer (0000-0002-9985-0448), Hildegard Diemberger (0009-0004-7655-6520), Astrid Hovden, A E J Ogilvie (0000-0001-9711-7878), Glenn P Juday (0000-0003-4055-1651)
EditoresOlga Ulturgasheva (0000-0003-4597-6579), Barbara Bodenhorn (0000-0002-1704-0450)
Ano2022
Páginas234
Data de publicação2022-12-31
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoRisky Futures (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781805390640
OpenAlexW4398210682
Open LibraryOL52558100M
ISBN9781805390640
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas52

Of course, the answer rests with us humans, this strange species that managed to bring our planet to the brink of self-destruction.The good news is that an increasing number of people on earth are beginning to understand that we cannot afford to lose large parts of the cryosphere.While there was a time when people without winter sport ambitions and with homelands outside the cryosphere could shrug off the melting of snow and ice as if it wouldn't matter, today we understand that rising sea levels, reduced levels of reflection of solar radiation from the earth's surface, changes in ocean currents, etc., will affect everyone and not just people living in the Arctic.The 'right to be cold' (Watt-Cloutier 2015) is no longer just an issue for Inuit activists but should serve as a rallying cry for all of humanity.It is clear that the entire cryosphere will not disappear in the foreseeable future.After all, high mountain areas will continue to receive precipitation in the form of snow for quite some time to come.Still, the climate change processes under way will significantly impact the lives of the peoples of the cryosphere.Thus, climate change will not just have direct impacts on the so-called natural environment of the Circumpolar North and beyond but also, at least indirectly, on its social environment and cultural activities.In short, it will become clear that -in our dependence on complex more-than-human environmental relations -we are all people of the cryosphere, who cannot afford to lose glaciers, ice or frozen ground, and need to insist on our 'right to be cold