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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern FutureVarious other problems commence if temperatures go above 21б°C in summer. With a contagious laugh she explains that IqaluitБЂ™s new buildings are being built with air-conditioning, something never seen before by the Inuit. Then, getting serious, sheБЂ™ll talk about plans to convince the Canadian government to build a deepwater port for its newest capital city.446 She just might get one. With two giant military neighbors and virtually no presence in the region, Canada suffers deep insecurities about Arctic sovereignty and knows that her aboriginal settlements are key to shoring it upБЂ”even to the point of past abuses like relocating Inuit families to bleak High Arctic outposts in the 1950s. While CanadaБЂ™s Inuit are a tiny peopleБЂ”only fifty thousand in 2006 (up from forty thousand in 1996), mostly in isolated villages scattered across the Arctic coastБЂ”they are the dominant human presence in such a vast empty place. In the Arctic, small numbers of people gain outsized importance. A village of two hundred becomes a major destination, two thousand a metropolis ...» |
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