Inuit Culture Examined: The lives of the Inuit people in greenalnd and how water pollution is destroying their culture and forcing them to change their traditions.
Title: Inuit Culture Examined: The lives of the Inuit people in greenalnd and how water pollution is destroying their culture and forcing them to change their traditions.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1457 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Inuit Culture Examined: The lives of the Inuit people in greenalnd and how water pollution is destroying their culture and forcing them to change their traditions.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1457 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Inuit Culture Examined
The lives of the Inuit people are very much at risk by consuming large amounts of PCB's, mercury and other toxins. As tradition has it, the Inuit people mostly eat what they can hunt, catch or find which usually include the latest marine mammals washed up on shore. Marine mammals by nature absorb great amounts of these toxins when they enter the ocean. The toxins are more commonly absorbed into the fat …showed first 75 words of 1457 total…
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