Some 100,000 Inuit live in regions north of the Arctic Circle on land that their ancestors have hunted and fished for generations. They know, both from their own observations and from what scientists tell them, that their environment is a hot spot for global warming. "We don't get much cold any more, spring is coming earlier, and ice conditions are getting unpredictable to the point of people falling through the ice and drowning," says Duane Smith, an Inuit leader from Inuvik, Canada. Yet many reject the notion that climate change is all bad.
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