Who?
In Southern Africa, this gender group performs most of the agricultural labour yet has the least access to land.
Who are women and girls?
Africa is warming at this multiple of the global average.
What is twice as fast?
The Northwest Territories have warmed at about this multiple of the global rate over the past 50 years.
What is three times faster?
This group experiences climate impacts as threats to both material survival and cultural continuity.
Who are Indigenous communities?
In 2016, this climate event caused severe food shortages across Southern Africa.
What is El Niño?
Because the NWT is not connected to this continental system, each community must generate its own power.
What is the North American electrical grid?
The IPCC reports that shifting weather patterns already affect millions in this global region emphasized in class.
What is Southern Africa?
Rising temperatures strain water systems by doing these two things.
What are increasing evaporation and reducing river flows?
Most NWT communities rely on this fuel source due to remoteness and harsh climate.
What is diesel?
These communities are most vulnerable because they rely directly on land and predictable weather.
What are rural communities
How many millions of people are threatened by annual flooding in South Africa due to rising sea levels?
What is 1.6 million?
The idea that land, water, and ecosystems should be treated as living relations rather than commodities reflects this principle.
What is Indigenous land ethos / Mother Earth relationality?