6/20/2023 0 Comments The right to be cold book![]() ![]() She says hunting and fishing on the ice is more than a way to get food. But they now sometimes have to find new paths, which costs time and money. ![]() ![]() She says people have traveled the same routes across the ice for many years to reach good hunting spots. “We have loss of lives, in fact, and loss of sleds and snowmobiles through that thinning ice,” Watt-Cloutier says. But as Arctic sea ice weakens, hunting for seals and other animals is becoming more dangerous. She says hunting and fishing are important parts of Inuit culture. In her book “ The Right to Be Cold,” Watt-Cloutier explains how global warming threatens this traditional lifestyle. “And so we were very much connected to the ice, the snow, and the cold,” she says. Until she was 10, she traveled only by dog sled. Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier grew up in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. ![]()
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