Affects of Climate Change on People and Their Lifestyle

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Affects of Climate Change on People and Their
Lifestyle
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Ahead of the global climate talks in December
2009, nine photographers from the photo agency
NOOR photographed climate stories from around the
world. Their goal to document some of the
causes and consequences, from deforestation to
changing sea levels, as well as the people whose
lives and jobs are part of the carbon culture.
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Russia's Reindeer Herders Yes, almost like
the Eskimos in Alaska
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The 435-mile-long Yamal Peninsula in Russia's
Siberia is one of the world's last great
wildernesses and home to the nomadic Nenet
tribes. For centuries, the Nenet have herded
their domesticated reindeer to summer pastures
above the Arctic Circle. But now, the Nenets
traditional way of life is threatened by warming
temperatures.
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Nanets

• Nomadic people of Siberia
• Follows the Reindeer herds
• Stay mainly on the peninsula
• Lives like the Eskimo do

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Nenet families live on the tundra in
reindeer-skin tents. Until recently, the
Nenets crossed the frozen Ob River in November to
set up camps farther south. But the pilgrimage is
now usually delayed until late December when the
river ice is thick enough to cross.
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Firewood is gathered for a Nenet campsite. The
peninsula is 1,250 miles northeast of Moscow, and
the Nenets migrate north to south more than 100
miles every year, spending only a few days in one
place, living off reindeer and fish.
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A Nenet herder prepares to lasso a reindeer. The
Nenet culture relies on reindeer for food and
clothing. Herds have been impacted, however, by
the changing climate. The delay of the annual
migration south means less fresh pasture for the
herds to feed on before spring.
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The Nenets travel with herds of domesticated
reindeer, using lassos when it's time to
slaughter one.
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A Nenet family shares raw reindeer with pasta. A
typical family slaughters a reindeer every couple
of weeks.
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7. This Nenet, Vasilyi Ivanovich, is the elder of
his tribe. Some 42,000 Nenets live along the
peninsula. Once a majority, they are now
outnumbered by natural gas industry workers
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The Yamal Peninsula stretches deep into the
Arctic Ocean. In the language of the Nenet, Yamal
means worlds end. Like much of the Arctic,
Yamal has been locked in permafrost, land that
was thought to be in deep freeze. But the
permafrost is thawing in places, and if the thaw
goes deep and last long enough, the land will
release methane, a greenhouse gas much more
potent than carbon dioxide.
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Mobile phones, albeit sometimes hard to use,
have become part of the Nenet network. The
peninsula contains huge natural gas reserves.
It's already home to Russia's largest natural gas
field, and more drilling is planned. Most gas is
exported to Europe.
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Environmentalists fear that the drilling could
ruin the peninsula's delicate Arctic ecology.
Similar to the North Slope of Alaska where Oil
and Gas Drilling Rights are legislated and
protected. Gazprom, Russia's state energy giant,
is building a new pipeline, a railway line and
several bridges
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More Climate Changes of Culture

• AMAZON RIVER

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Brazil's Rain Forest

• When forests are cleared in Brazil's Amazon, the
  trees end up as lumber or charcoal, the latter
  produced in ovens like these outside the city of
  Rondon do Para. The clearing of forests by fire
  and logging releases carbon dioxide earlier than
  would occur naturally, adding to greenhouse gas
  emissions.

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The charcoal operation in Rondon do Para had 47
ovens when photographed and plans were to
increase that to 200 in the near future. The
charcoal is used at a steel smelter in Maraba,
Brazil. These ovens, and the once-forested land
they are on, are owned by a cattle rancher.
That's a typical scenario here, and often one
whose legality is clouded.
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Workers move charcoal into trucks for delivery to
the steel smelter in Maraba. Each basket weighs
110 pounds. Brazil's Amazon still accounts for
more than half of the world's standing forest.
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This man works at the Rondon do Para charcoal
ovens. Many of the workers in Rondon have come
from other areas of Brazil in search of jobs and,
someday, their own land. This is a typical
worldwide dream. People get there by working the
low-skilled, low safety controlled jobs, and
hopefully sending money back home.
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A truck moves logs near Rondon do Para. Brazil
says a larger environmental police force reduced
illegal logging in 2009 to its lowest level in
two decades. The slumping economy, and reduced
demand for beef and timber, could also be a
factor. Deforestation peaked in 2004 at 10,000
square miles, but it still happens. The 2,700
square miles cleared in 12 months through August
2009 is nine times the size of New York City.
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The Amazon's trees are a major natural defense
against global warming, acting as "sinks" by
absorbing carbon dioxide. But burning those trees
to make room for ranches and farms releases that
CO2. About 75 percent of Brazil's CO2 emissions
come from rain forest clearing. Globally,
deforestation accounts for up to 20 percent of
carbon emissions -- more than all the world's
cars, ships and planes combined.
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East Africa's Climate Refugees'
A woman waits to be processed into Dadaab, the
world's largest refugee camp. Located in Kenya
55 miles from the Somali border, the overcrowded
camp houses many people fleeing violence in
Somalia. Others have fled their homes due to
famine and severe drought, a category now being
described as "climate refugees."
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A girl takes drinking water back to her family at
the Dadaab refugee camp. Some 700 children are
born here each month. Built to house 90,000
people, the camp received 62,000 arrivals from
Somalia in 2008 alone nearly half children.
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Ethiopians fleeing famine and drought in their
country arrive in Galkayo, northern Somalia. Many
of these refugees are trying to get to Yemen. The
drought is so severe in Ethiopia that even camels
have been dying of thirst. Across Africa,
warming temperatures are expected to worsen
droughts and access to water. "By 2020, between
75 million and 250 million people are projected
to be exposed to increased water stress due to
climate change," the U.N. panel on climate change
wrote in its most recent assessment. "The area
suitable for agriculture, the length of growing
seasons and yield potential, particularly along
the margins of semi-arid and arid areas, are
expected to decrease."
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An elderly man rests at the hospital at Dadaab,
sick after the long trek to the relative safety
of the camp. The camp, which is actually three
separate areas, has operated since 1991. Nearly
all its refugees are Somali, and many have lived
there for more than a decade.
The worst drought in a decade is destroying crops
and livestock across the horn of Africa. In
Kenya, there are fears of a new humanitarian
crisis.
Another reason why Somalia is such a mess.
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Newly arrived refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia
wait to be registered at the U.N. offices at
Dadaab. Refugees without registration are not
given any help. Kenya closed its border with
Somalia in 2007, but that has not stopped the
refugee influx.
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Women wait for food to be distributed at Dadaab.
While most refugees here come from other
countries, Kenya itself is feeling the pressure
of severe drought. "It is nearly certain that
2010 and possibly beyond will be periods of
prolonged drought and water scarcity," the U.N.
said of Kenya in October 2009
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Somalis regularly cross this area into Kenya,
bribing border guards in order to make it to
Dadaab. In 2009, some 4,000 refugees made their
way each month to the camp. While parts of the
Horn of Africa are experiencing severe drought,
this area saw severe flooding that only
aggravated poor farming conditions.
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Ethiopian refugees arrive in Galkayo, Somalia,
after several weeks travel. The immediate area is
thought to house some 220,000 refugees, many
trying to make it to Yemen.
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Somali and Ethiopian refugees arrive in Aden,
Yemen, after crossing the Gulf of Aden on
smugglers' boats. Some die on the way, beaten
to death or thrown overboard. Tens of thousands
cross each year, hoping for a better life but
often being deported back to Somalia or Ethiopia.
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Ethiopian refugees in Galkayo build ramshackle
huts while waiting to move on toward Yemen. The
town in northern Somalia includes several U.N.
refugee camps.
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Maldives' Rising Oceans
The Maldives is situated in the South West of Sri
Lanka, on the equator. The numerous coral reef
islands, 1,190 in total, form an archipelago of
26 natural atolls ( groups of neighbouring coral
islands). These 26 atolls are organised into 19
administrative atolls with the capital island of
Male' established as an entity of its own forming
the twentieth division. Seen from air, the atolls
and the islands form breathtakingly beautiful
patterns against the blue depths of the Indian
Ocean.
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• While the sources of greenhouse gases are often
  in the industrial world, consequences often are
  visible in non-industrial areas. The Indian Ocean
  nation of Maldives, which is struggling to hold
  back rising seas, is one such example. The
  capital Malé, seen here, is one of the world's
  most densely populated cities. Nearly 104,000
  people are crammed onto an island about a square
  mile in size.

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The Maldives capitalizes heavily on its main
natural resource, its bewildering collection of
pristine tropical isles.
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Malé sits on an island just three feet above sea
level. The natural shape was added to by filling
shallow waters with sand and rocks. That took the
land closer to an outside coral reef, reducing
the reef's ability to buffer the island from
storms and rising seas. To counter the tides
and storms, a 60 million concrete barrier
system, part of it seen here, now rings Malé.
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• "I chose Maldives because it's the country which
  is the closest to sea level," says photographer
  Francesco Zizola.
• "If it's true what the majority of scientists
  claim regarding global warming, then Maldives
  would be the first country to disappear
  underwater."

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Residents often take advantage of low tide to
collect rocks and other material to reinforce
exposed areas near their homes or businesses.
Over the last century, sea levels globally have
risen about eight inches, much of that from
melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic
Peninsula, as well as thermal expansion of warmer
waters. Eight inches might not sound like much,
but for Maldives every inch counts.
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The 60 million seawall was financed by Japan and
runs nearly four miles around Malé. It's about 11
feet tall.
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Rising sea levels are not the only worry here.
Warming seas, and more acidic seas due to CO2
emissions, have the potential to impact fisheries
and the coral reefs on which many fish rely.
Fishing makes up 20 percent of Maldives' gross
domestic product and provides an estimated 22,000
jobs.
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Sand is mined at Villingili Island and some of
the other 1,200 that comprise Maldives. The
practice is often done illegally, most of it to
supply the cement industry, making the islands
even more vulnerable to rising seas, high tides
and storms.
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Besides climate concerns, Maldives struggles with
trash from locals and tourists. Most of its
garbage is sent to Thilafushi Island, also known
as "Rubbish Island." Originally a vast lagoon, it
became an island in 1992 when garbage was used to
fill it in. Workers incinerate or bury most of
the waste. Crushed cans, metals and cardboard are
shipped to India, but any hazardous waste is not
removed from regular garbage.
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Maldives has an international airport on Hulhulé
Island. The runway is just 6 feet above sea
level. At high tide, that can narrow to just 20
inches.
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Residents of Malé and the rest of Maldives are
part of an island culture that dates back at
least 2,000 years. "We do not want to leave the
Maldives," President Mohamed Nasheed has said,
"but we also do not want to be climate refugees
living in tents for decades."
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