Climate Change Puts the Traditional Lifestyle of the World at Risk

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Ilulissat. Jørgen Kristensen grew up in a village in northern Greenland, and his closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired inuits; he was different. When he was harassed at school for his clear hair – the inheritance of his Danish father from the continent he never met – the dogs came to him. The first time he went out alone to fish on the ice with his animals, was when he was nine years old. They f…