Greenland rarely sparked my interest in the past. When I was younger I knew only that it was a large land mass with a lot of ice. I do not recall thinking there were any inhabitants. But now learning about the warming climate’s profound impact on the continent and its culture is sobering knowledge to acquire.

Many of the people have remained subsistence hunters relying on the ice to hunt for their food and their survival, but the ice is melting away and with it thousands of years of tradition.

It is painfully ironic that these distant communities have been living in balance with nature since the earliest dwellers, yet they are witnessing, before most of us, the resulting recklessness of others.