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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

The thing is, nature has always and will always adapt to the prevailing conditions, so if the ice buggers off, they should be ok. That is if truly the ice is buggering off,as I see reports saying that, that also is increasing in certain areas, quite the contrary to the reports we are all being fed.

What I do find of concern though about all of this, is the far away world's impact on the natives of the region, the Inuit. They like the Native American of the past hunted what came to be 'endangered' species, but the endangerment did not come from their interest in the game, it came from other, with more powerful weapons.

The natives of the region hunt big cuddly, fluffy polar bears, but they like the Native American only take what they need, they do not hunt something to the edges of extinction. The native culture of the region is centered around what they hunt, is the west again going to destroy yet another culture for it's arrogant beliefs ?

To note, not all Inuit use modern high power rifles to hunt game, some still go about it the old way and that way, it is a pretty dangerous thing to do, the battle for food and materials is hard fought. Anyways, even if they do use rifles, fail to get a clean kill and they got an angry bear on their hands and those things can shift.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

The thing is, nature has always and will always adapt to the prevailing conditions, so if the ice buggers off, they should be ok. That is if truly the ice is buggering off,as I see reports saying that, that also is increasing in certain areas, quite the contrary to the reports we are all being fed.

What I do find of concern though about all of this, is the far away world's impact on the natives of the region, the Inuit. They like the Native American of the past hunted what came to be 'endangered' species, but the endangerment did not come from their interest in the game, it came from other, with more powerful weapons.

The natives of the region hunt big cuddly, fluffy polar bears, but they like the Native American only take what they need, they do not hunt something to the edges of extinction. The native culture of the region is centered around what they hunt, is the west again going to destroy yet another culture for it's arrogant beliefs ?

To note, not all Inuit use modern high power rifles to hunt game, some still go about it the old way and that way, it is a pretty dangerous thing to do, the battle for food and materials is hard fought. Anyways, even if they do use rifles, fail to get a clean kill and they got an angry bear on their hands and those things can shift.

You have a romanticized, and incorrect. view of Native American hunting practices. Prior to human arrivial in the americas the continents had horses, camels, pachyderms and some megafauna unique to the continents. The extinction of all those species coincides with the arrival of humans in eash region.

As to the Inuit and polar bear hunting, they should be free to continue hunting for their own use with traditional practices, if as you claim it is part of their culture. However bringing in trophy hunters willing to pay big bucks for a license is not the same at all and is what is actually going to be restricted in Canada.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Do I ? Then pray tell me how it was the Native America hunted for food and materials prior to having guns ?

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If you didn't notice, I was talking about a country where native people existed, not a country before the existence of native people.