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Mike__M

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Wed Jun 7, 2017, 02:45 AM Jun 2017

Native Nations Support the Paris Climate Change Agreement

This is one more reason to support tribal sovereignty:

Tribes respond to presidential withdrawal from climate pact

Mark Trahant, Trahant Reports

“For hundreds of years the pollution based economy has degraded our home,” states Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby in a news release. “We can no longer allow a failed system to continue to destroy the planet. The Paris Climate Change Agreement reflects the global consensus that we must act together and we must act now.”

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Quinault Indian Nation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska said they will fill the vacuum and take aggressive action to protect the places we call home. The tribes said in a news release that climate change touches all aspect of life, from those who have no voice, the salmon, buffalo, seals and polar bears, to those who are suffering the impacts of water loss, shoreline erosion, drought and loss of homelands and waters.

Across North American tribes see climate change, or global warming, as real, human-caused, and something that is changing life right now.


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Native Nations Support the Paris Climate Change Agreement (Original Post) Mike__M Jun 2017 OP
Thank You! for this post.. furtheradu Jun 2017 #1
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