![]() ![]() ![]() Reporting credit: Sarah Kennedy/ChavoBart Digital Media. The author takes us through her travels to Nova Scotia and Ontario at a young age, as well as her time in a residential vocational school in Churchill, Manitoba. She says her community and the world are losing a vital source of wisdom as the Arctic melts. In The Right to be Cold, Sheila Watt-Cloutier recalls her childhood in the Canadian Arctic and her fight against the threat of climate change as an adult. “Developing the patience, the courage, how not to be impulsive, how to develop your sound judgment, and ultimately how to become wise people – you learn that when you’re out there in nature in that cold,” Watt-Cloutier says. She says hunting and fishing on the ice is more than a way to get food. But they now sometimes have to find new paths, which costs time and money. ![]() She says people have traveled the same routes across the ice for many years to reach good hunting spots. “We have loss of lives, in fact, and loss of sleds and snowmobiles through that thinning ice,” Watt-Cloutier says. But as Arctic sea ice weakens, hunting for seals and other animals is becoming more dangerous. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. She says hunting and fishing are important parts of Inuit culture. ![]() In her book “ The Right to Be Cold,” Watt-Cloutier explains how global warming threatens this traditional lifestyle.
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