Indigenous peoples, living closest to nature, feel the threat of climate change first. They have a potent message to deliver to the climate treaty negotiators meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. The climate is changing the way they've lived forever, so they're adapting in order to endure. Do the rest of us have the wisdom and ingenuity to change along with the changing climate?
This program was funded by The Christensen Fund.
Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council
Gunn-Britt Retter, Head of the Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council
Mike Williams, Chairman, Alaska Intertribal Council
Sarah James, Gwich'in tribal leader, Arctic Village, Alaska; winner, Goldman Environmental Prize
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
Shagire Shano Shale, Gamo elder and Ethiopian mountain pastoralist; Wolde Gossa Tadesse, interpreter(TCF)
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: Open - "Caribou Skin Hut Dance" - Sarah James - Soundings of Planet; "A United Earth I" - Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour - Putumayo World Music; "Hunter" - Bjork - Pid; "Caribou Skin Hut Dance" - Sarah James - Soundings of Planet; "Crazy Horse" - John Trudell - Reincarnate Music.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
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