Comments on: Alaskan Coastline Eroding Into the Sea as Glaciers Melt

By: CGabriel

CGabriel — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:50:49 +0000

I’ve read your site for quite a while but have refrained from commenting until now. The reason? As one who only recently began fully comprehending the importance of treating our environment – our planet – with far more TLC and sensitivity, I thought “what kind of cogent observation could I possibly add to the posts and comments from others far more knowledgable than me?”

But there’s the rub – you don’t have to be an expert on serious environmental issues, like the eroding Alaskan coastline, to stand up, vocalize, be counted and lend a hand…or tenor, as it were.

Reading your piece, and juxtaposing it with what Wendy said about everyone being so interconnected, is a vivid reminder of the reality show playing out that truly defines the name “Survivor.”

By: Adam Shake

Adam Shake — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:48:06 +0000

Randy,
you make some good points. We tend not to pay attention do things outside our sphere of “effect.” If it doesn’t effect us, we don’t pay attention to it. Sad, in that it is this lack of care that leads to the tipping of different actions that result in us being effected by them, when the effect could have been stopped well in advance, had we cared.
Thanks for the Comment,

Adam

By: R

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:23:24 +0000

I hope they are going to disassemble the house and re-use the material.

By: Rob Chant

Rob Chant — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:06:02 +0000

Hum… it would be interesting to see what Palin would say about this!

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:40:39 +0000

This whole scenario does have severe ramifications. Most tend to ignore it because it’s seems so far away. With a population of less than 400, we can easily choose to ignore a place like Newtok, AK. I’ve been following their plight for awhile now. The mostly native residents are a close, traditional, “family” which has been in the process of relocating their entire village, piece by piece, to another location on granted land because the erosion is so bad it is on track to swallow up their whole town in only a few years. I don’t have time to write very much about this right now, but I might do a blog post about it.

http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Newtok

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:27:00 +0000

We are all so interconnected. The more I learn about the challenges facing our planet the more I change my behaviors. I used to think that I was just one person, what could I do to change the planet. Now I believe that it is my responsibility to do everything I can to live sustainably because one persons efforts do make a difference (for good or for bad).