Arctic Environment
This part of the Artic is disappearing rapidly due to Climate Change, affecting the wildlife and Inuit communities.
What is sea ice?
Inuit survival has traditionally relied on mastering these skills passed down through generations.
What are life skills or traditional knowledge?
This term refers to the long-term changes in temperature, precipitation, and weather patterns affecting the planet.
What is climate change?
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a devoted advocate for the rights of this Indigenous group.
Who are the Inuit?
Sheila Watt-Cloutier connects the melting Arctic to extreme weather events in this part of the world.
What is everywhere?
This Arctic species relies on sea ice to hunt seals and is severely impacted by climate change.
What is the polar bear?
Inuit communities traditionally hunt this marine mammal, which has been affected by changes in ice conditions.
What is the seal?
Sheila Watt-Cloutier connects climate change to these fundamental rights, like health and safety.
What are human rights
Sheila Watt-Cloutier was nominated for this prestigious award in 2007 for her climate justice work.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
This greenhouse gas, primarily from human activities, is a major contributor to Arctic warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
This natural phenomenon helps regulate the Earths tempature and is often referred as the planets "air conditioner"
What is the Arctic
This form of traditional Inuit transportation has been affected by shrinking sea ice.
What is dog sledding?
This activity by humans is the primary cause of rising carbon dioxide levels, contributing to climate change.
What is burning fossil fuels?
Sheila Watt-Cloutier grew up in this northern Canadian territory.
What is Nunavut?
Watt-Cloutier argues that Arctic climate change is a warning system for this group of people.
Who are all humans?
Rising temperatures in the Arctic are causing this layer of soil to thaw, releasing greenhouse gasses
What is permafrost
Inuit people have a unique word for the sense of responsibility for others and the environment.
What is sila?
This global agreement aims to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C to combat climate change, something Watt-Cloutier advocates for.
What is the Paris Agreement?
The title of The Right to Be Cold reflects Watt-Cloutier’s belief that protecting the Arctic is a fight for this type of justice.
What is environmental justice?
This type of international action is necessary to address the global impacts of climate change, as advocated by Watt-Cloutier.
What is collective or collaborative action?
The Arctic is warming this many times faster then the global average.
What is four times faster
Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes how climate change threatens not just the Arctic environment but this aspect of Inuit life.
What is their culture or way of life?
The Arctic’s melting ice contributes to this global issue, threatening coastal communities worldwide.
What is sea-level rise?
Watt-Cloutier served as Chair of this international organization representing Inuit across four Arctic nations.
What is the Inuit Circumpolar Council?
Sheila Watt-Cloutier believes that protecting the Arctic is not just an environmental issue but also a matter of preserving this.
What is cultural heritage?