Climate Change In Alaska

Bears’ portrayals of Alaska’s beauty and wildlife, and studying what the environmental cycle is like in Alaska, viewers can come to know what Alaska means to them. The film is able to provide a representation of the American people’s belief of Alaska as being an untamed, beautiful wilderness with free roaming wildlife that is from and far protected, from the changing world. Yet the film raises the possibility, though not as prominent as it should, that climate change will alter the landscapes shown in the film. In addition, upon looking at the film closely it shows that from climate change, Alaska’s land is slowly shifting at a constant rate. In which it then causes a change both in our perspectives and in the living habitats of the wildlife,

These perspectives have changed, because, in ourselves, we know that climate change is affecting other areas around the globe. Thus, when it is happening in a part of the United States, it awakens in us the realization that it impacts and affects us personally as Americans who consider Alaska a part of home and country. Our perspective of Alaska and its connection to global warming may also change due to the influences of race, culture, gender, and class that are part of our society. The way we look at Alaska is not just from what the film wants us to see regarding Alaska, but is created by the society in which we live in, and how that society has helped define what other places mean to us. In her study between the connection of Alaska’s climate change and the people of Alaska, Christine Shearer argued an opposite idea, in which climate change rather influences “the role of race, gender, and class, as well as nation” and from these environmental issues in Alaskan villages, they have had to “relocate due to climate change”, leading to a change in their society and thus their perspectives in regards to what Alaska means to them as a wilderness and frontier. The perspectives we have of Alaska, can in certain degrees establish our opinions of wildlife’s habitats. One perceives

Stemming from the belief that climate change only truly changes a landscape, such as Alaskan’s landscape, this concept of what climate change means to us and animal habits, has changed over the years with climate change playing a bigger role in all parts of an area or landscape. Climate change contains the power to impact these animal habits in that the climate that Alaska is given provides much-needed nutrients, water, and temperatures in the forests, mountains, meadows, rivers, and streams. These, in turn, produce from these climatic sources, plants, and animals that are then used to sustain other parts of wildlife that depend greatly on those other sources. Bears plays upon this concept, through not only showing some of the living and eating habits of the Alaskan Brown Bear but by describing how much the bears found in the film depend upon the salmon that swims in the rivers during the summer months. In this scenario, the bears, and other wildlife heavily rely on the salmon groups as a source of food during the summer months. While the salmon themselves depend upon water levels and other climate effects to reach the areas they have spawned in for years. From this given scenario, viewers grasp that not just are the salmon-dependent upon what the climate gives them, but other animals are as well. The example provided solidifies the