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Wisdom of Elders Better Than Science or the Internet: “They Still Know How to Cook Mammoth”

Posted by Stephen Leahy in Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples on March 29, 2012
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“Our elders are the best source of information. Better than science or the internet,” said Petr Kaurgin, a Chukchi reindeer herder from the remote Turvaurgin nomadic tribal community in north-eastern Siberia. Kaurgin delivered his message to climate scientists from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other Indigenous peoples at the closing of the Climate…

Globalization Through the Eyes of a Nomad

Posted by Albert Yu-Min Lin of National Geographic Emerging Explorer on March 12, 2012
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It may seem strange to suggest that the motivation behind our global economies, conflicts, cultures, and politics can be summed up within the mindset of the herdsman on the grassy steppe. But then again, the largest contiguous empire in human history was created by one of those nomads, and his name was Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.