"The Inuit are experiencing first- hand the adverse effects of climate change. We are on the front line of globalisation. Climate change is not just a theory to us in the Arctic, it is a stark and dangerous reality. Human-induced climate change is undermining the ecosystem upon which Inuit depend for their physical and cultural survival."

Aqqaluk Lynge, May 2007

 

Aqqaluk has represented the Inuit of Alaska, Canada and Greenland (his home country) and the Far East of Russia, as President and then Vice-Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and as an advisor to the UN. His perspective from a people who are already seriously affected by the impacts of climate change sends a strong message to the West about the effect of our way of life on a vulnerable population.

 

SCCS autumn talks are run in conjunction with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society