An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

@[email protected] · 21 days ago

An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

@AA5B · 20 days ago

Wow that’s a much different picture than I expected …… I assume permafrost melting means ground gets soggy so you need some sort of foundation rework, including on roads. However the article focussed on “slumps” which seem like landslides under a different name. If your town was built on a frozen swamp, you could probably build on posts or something. However if your town slides into the ocean, you can’t really recover

@[email protected] · 20 days ago

Yeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.

Snot Flickerman · edit-2 20 days ago

The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

So in a way, they’re no different than Floridians who refuse to move even though they can’t actually get their homes insured anymore.

Humans and refusing to face the reality of climate change until it’s too late. Name a more iconic duo.

Flying Squid · 20 days ago

And in another way, this is their ancestral land and people have been trying to force them off of it for 500 years.

@[email protected] · 20 days ago

Now would be a good time to start