Critical Essay - Greenland Flashcards
Greenland is dangerous
“More than half of all Greenland residents report dramatic glacier retreat near their settlements”
“Eight in 10 Greenland residents believe that in recent years the local sea ice, a key economic and social lifeline in winter, has become too dangerous to travel on”
“Sea ice is an open highway”
“The frozen sea is now a threat”
Dogs are important
“Villages once echoed to the howl of sled dogs”
“Sled dogs are as much of a part of the landscape as the lichen and the sea”
“A dog given the name my son”
“A shocking explosion of grief in a culture where emotion is rarely shown”
Climate change affecting people’s mental health
“There are no local words for climate crisis”-“sostalgia”
“A looming public health crisis”- use as last quotation.
“Words like eco-anxiety or ecological grief”
“To prevent a domino effect of self harm”
Climate change is affecting the landscape
“When it fails to freeze in winter it’s an obstacle to the community”
“Each winter more and more ice journeys fall victim to warming oceans”
“Greenlands world is shrinking”
Place of Greenland
“Everywhere plastic flowers flutter in the rising wind”
“Greenland has a compressed and angular coastline designed to break the ankles and the resolve of potential settlers”
“Other than black moss and lichen, nothing much grows”
“There is no question, as you travel across it, that this feels like a poor country”
Ending
“Older members of a nearby settlement once threw themselves to relieve society of their burden”
“Unprecedented heatwave”
“The fjord that calved the iceberg that is believed to have sunk the titanic”
Introduction
Captivating and poignant in equal measure, the brilliantly written text “life on thin ice” by Dan McDougall highlights………..- we learn (say all points that your doing). He succeeds in this by……. Which in turn deepens our appreciation of this….
Conclusion
McDougall very successfully educated us on the horrific impacts the changes caused by climate change is having on the whole of Greenland. McDougall evokes great empathy by describing the impacts and this gives us a deeper appreciation of the text.
Evaluation of climate change is affecting the landscape.
The description makes us feel sympathetic and this is important because the reader realises the extent of the issue as climate change is destroying their way of life.
Evaluation for anything
The success of the text lies in McDougall ability to make us consider how
Evaluation for Greenland is dangerous
Having unearthed the dark reality of Greenland and what the people have to face, we are left with a sense of loss and uncertainty as we have gained a deeper understanding of the danger and the toll it is having on the people.
