草榴社区 prof sheds light on drastic climate change in Alaska, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia
The human race has been considered a race of hunter鈥揼atherers. Groups that lived inland hunted wild animals and when the opportunity presented itself, they fished in lakes and rivers. Alternatively, groups that lived by a coast relied far more heavily on fish from the ocean, naturally leading to the formation of villages near rivers that led to oceans to maintain a food supply.
In America, climate change is commonly, and simply, viewed as hot summers and cold winters. However, for some groups that have maintained the hunter鈥揼atherer lifestyle, climate change is potentially devastating.
Western Washington University professor Lauren McClanahan recently experienced the effects of climate change in Alaska, Mongolia, and Sri Lanka first-hand.