Artic Quotes

“Saying you're the 'first person' to do anything in an indigenous country is insulting.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“Show respect to the land and the people who have kept it pristine for your adventures.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“colonialism benefits from dispossessing indigenous people of their land and writing us out of history”
― Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona

“There are quadrillions of dollars in oil and other resources hidden beneath the ice in the Artic, enough to even make the wealthiest in the world drool. But how to get to those resources without it costing them money? If they use technology to warm up the atmosphere enough to melt that ice, that would work. But then, how to explain to the world why the ice caps are melting? Call it 'Global Warming' and blame it on the population.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit don't have history there.”
― Gayle Kabloona

“A 2005 study, Impacts of a Warming Artic, concluded that the Artic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization