From The New American
''Climate change is destroying traditional cultures and economies in Greenland, according to a recently published article in the New York Times.
Correspondent Elizabeth Rosenthal highlights Narsaq, a town on the
southern coast where the mainstay fishing industry is dwindling due to
stock depletion in ever-warming waters. She reports a 50-percent decline
in population in the past 10 years and a rising suicide rate. A local
fisherman told her, "Lots of people have lost their livelihoods." Yet
melting ice is uncovering "vast new deposits of minerals and gems ...
forming the basis of a potentially lucrative mining industry" that could
one day mean independence for Greenland from its parent state of
Denmark.''
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