you are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on what you have read and learned in this module. influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit. This combination of conditions had led not only to economic stress but to loss of traditional culture, and thus to mental-health problems as well as physical ones. Write a summary of tribal nations: climate change threatens traditional ways of life. Permafrost erosion and erratic melting have resulted in lost homes, buildings, and infrastructure, such as roads.
One result has been an increase in injuries to natives when they hunt, as well as an increasing number of hunters and fishers who are trapped far from their homes. Storms have worsened, and flooding has increased. Similar changes, such as melting schedules and water temperature variation, are occurring in freshwater. Sea ice has shrunk, and sea level is rising permafrost has thawed. Temperatures have increased twice as much in the Arctic as in the world as a whole, and precipitation has become less predictable. In addition to drought, floods, and fires, climate change may bring an increase in crop-destroying pests.Īlaska natives have been particularly hard hit by climate change. Drinking water quality and fish and wildlife habitats have become threatened.
The impact of climate change on water supplies and ecosystems is another crucial factor. It is not certain that the native communities will be able to adapt successfully to such drastic changes. Meanwhile, an increase in wildfires due to drought threatens food supplies, cultural sites, residences, and local economies. The shift in diet, along with the high price of non-traditional foods, has made health problems worse, including malnutrition and infectious disease. Ocean resources, such as salmon and shellfish have become scarcer agricultural yields are less abundant due to soil erosion traditional medicinal plants are increasingly hard to find on native lands. The loss of traditional foods is underway. Environmental losses from severe erosion and flooding have affected the environment, sometimes resulting in the necessity of relocation of communities. These populations already face serious problems arising from extreme poverty. Census Bureau for 1980-2010 shows that the median weekly earnings of full-time male employees who have at least a bachelors degree can be modeled by the function M(x) 0.009x -0.29x² + 30.7x + 439.6, where x is the number of years after 1980 and M(x) is the median weekly earnings in dollars. Climate change poses a special threat to the 5.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who live in the United States, 1.1 million of them on reservations. Answers: 2 on a question: Employment The data from the U.