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Hi All, Given the expertise of this group, I was wondering if anyone has been working on how climate change hits the indigenous communities the hardest. I read this article a month back about the UN negotiations that are due to be held in Jan 09 and how not even a single representative from these minority communities has been included in the negotiations....

Hi All, Given the expertise of this group, I was wondering if anyone has been working on how climate change hits the indigenous communities the hardest. I read this article a month back about the UN negotiations that are due to be held in Jan 09 and how not even a single representative from these minority communities has been included in the negotiations. Any information on ...

Interesting question and interesting point. I'm not aware of that expertise here. As far as Australia goes, it is an area of recognised deficit in the research: There has been very little analysis of the impact that climate change will have on Australian indigenous communities. This is a clear gap in the research, which is well recognised by the CSIRO ...

Animal Farm - Chapter X by George Orwell Quote: Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion....

Interesting question and interesting point. I'm not aware of that expertise here. As far as Australia goes, it is an area of recognised deficit in the research: There has been very little analysis of the impact that climate change will have on Australian indigenous communities. This is a clear gap in the research, which is well recognised by the CSIRO and other major research ...

Animal Farm - Chapter X by George Orwell Quote: Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer ...

Thank you so much for the lead! It was really helpful. I was basically looking for different perspectives on the problem. I am assisting in a campaign that seeks to lobby decision makers at the upcoming UN summits at Poznan and Copenhagen. It is really ironical that not even a single representative from these groups has been consulted while drafting policies that ...

Thank you so much for the lead! It was really helpful. I was basically looking for different perspectives on the problem. I am assisting in a campaign that seeks to lobby decision makers at the upcoming UN summits at Poznan and Copenhagen. It is really ironical that not even a single representative from these groups has been consulted while drafting policies that would affect their lives the ...

Hm. I'm a social anthropologist by education (only a freckin' madman by reputation): I guess I ought to be more interested, but the fact is: reality bites hard. As far as I'm personally concerned, we've got to concentrate our efforts on modernizing industrial society in the directrion of choosing renewable energy systems over earth shattering fossil-fuels. Even from an indigenous peoples' ...

Hm. I'm a social anthropologist by education (only a freckin' madman by reputation): I guess I ought to be more interested, but the fact is: reality bites hard. As far as I'm personally concerned, we've got to concentrate our efforts on modernizing industrial society in the directrion of choosing renewable energy systems over earth shattering fossil-fuels. Even from an ...