[Vision2020] Followup: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens In Anchorage Daily News

[J Ford]

YES, the TYPE of emergency is new - i.e., the fact that PERMANENT villages are having to be moved to higher ground.

What you refuse to acknowledge is the fact that these people have a VERY, very long history of moving from one place to another.  THEY ARE/WERE A MIGRATORY PEOPLE.   It wasn't until they were made to stay put that others see/saw "emergencies" such as what you are reporting.  

In all due respect for Sen. Ted (a personal family friend) the quote and whole of his missive had to do more with the expenditure of monies and the moving of a whole fixed-structure-village that is new...not the fact that the natives have to move.

It would be nice if you would do more than look at the end of your nose to see the effects of things.  Again, I am not denying that people affect their surrounding area; all I'm saying and what Ted said is that a great deal of what is happening now has been building for 100's of years and will always be an issue - we just panic where other animals adapt.

J  :]


Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:20:20 -0700
From: starbliss at gmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Followup: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens In Anchorage	Daily News

All-
 
Only posting a short segment, with quotes from Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, from the recent Anchorage Daily News article, might clarify what the article is about, in terms of whether this is a new problem or not.  As I have posted before about the Green Revolution, it is only a matter of time before it arrives; and Republicans such as Ted Stevens taking a public stand like this is part of this revolution:

 
Anchorage Daily News
 
Published: October 22, 2007
Last Modified: October 22, 2007 at 02:37 AM
 
Text below exactly as in the article:
 
By BETH BRAGG 
 
http://www.adn.com/contact/bbragg/index.html

bbragg at adn.com
 
A NEW KIND OF EMERGENCY

Newtok, Shishmaref, and Kivalina are the canaries in the mine that is global warming, which is eating river banks, thawing permafrost and delaying the annual formation of shore-fast ice that protects coastal towns from fall sea 

storms.

Even Stevens, once a skeptic of global warming and man's role in hastening it, talks about the effects of "global climate change." Long a champion of the oil industry that supports Alaska's economy, he has in recent months  pushed for fuel-efficient American-made cars and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.


"I think there is a contribution of mankind to the warming cycle," he told Channel 2 news this summer, although he also said he believes the warming  trend is part of a natural cycle hundreds of years in the making.


Stevens harbors no doubt, though, that many Alaska villages face impending disaster.

"This is a new type of emergency," he said at the Senate hearing. "We get it first, but it's coming everywhere."

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