Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.world – 115 points –
Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
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Yet another loss that we humans created and must adapt to.

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My ability to empathize with Native families on this one is severely limited by my extreme jealousy that they get to live life that way.

Caring about this issue draws on a deep, dumb level of logic that destroying an ecosystem in this way is just wrong.

Not that I can really do anything about it, so far away from Alaska.