Melting Away In The Andes

Good article thanks for posting.

It's the places that have caused the least pollution that suffer the most. The same thing is happening in the Northwest Territories. We were the hot spot in Canada again today. We never used to have these extremely warm temperatures (especially before summer) or extreme fluctuations, tomorrow they are calling for snow.

Like the people of the Andes, our population is too small to have any influence on pollution control. I was really disheartened to hear they are building a highway and bringing mining to the Andes. So another area ruined by mining. They will never recover.

The sad part is none of the major industrial countries care about global climate change, including Canada. All these governments seem to see is $$$$$$$.

At my age I probably won't be around when mother nature finally says enough is enough. But I do worry about my grandchildren. The effects of the emissions are melting the polar ice cap and the ice fields in both Canada and the Andes. It will eventually rise the sea level on both the East and West coasts of North America. I wonder how the US will feel when parts of California or New York City disappear under water?

It seems like the initial attempt to bring attention to this issue was a complete failure. It should have never been called global warming. Climate change and a lot of it man made should have been the approach from day 1.

Great post...and a big punch in the face on global warming...This subject should be on every bodies plate...this is whats happening more now then anything else...Thankies JanforGore

From the video:

In the misty mountains of the Vilcanota Cordillera, southeast of Cusco, on the steep slopes of the Andes, the Q'eros grow potatoes, herd alpaca, chew coca and pray to the mountain deities they call Apus. On my recent research trip to the Q'eros village of Qochamoqo, I was accompanied by Milton Gamarra, the Potato Repatriation Coordinator with Associación ANDES, who hiked in at harvest time to see how different potato varieties were doing in the face of climate change. The Q'eros harvested three fields at varying elevations and carefully bagged the different types of potatoes to determine how each seed type is faring under a variety of conditions. As El Niños come and go over the years, resilience has always been central to the vitality of Q'eros culture, and as the planet warms and the glaciers melt, the Q'eros are determined to be on the cutting edge of awareness with regard to climate change and what they can do to survive it. Produced as a preview of Losing Sacred Ground, a 4-part series, by the Sacred Land Film Project - www.sacredland.org