内容摘要：“I think I’m doing that for him,” Spence said. “You don’t just say ‘I got a problem.’ You go there with the fix.”

“I think I’m doing that for him,” Spence said. “You don’t just say ‘I got a problem.’ You go there with the fix.”

Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, walks through his property, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Dave Daley, a member of the Metis Nation, walks through his property, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Local ownership is key in Churchill, said formerpresident Dave Daley, who left town in the 1980s but returned after five years because he and his wife missed it. Big hotel chains poked around once and said they could fix up the town’s infrastructure and build something big.“We all stood and said ‘no’,” Daley said. “We’re a tight-knit group. We have our different opinions and everything else but we know how we want Churchill to be.”

As Churchill evolves, its forgotten past has surfaced at times as tourists ask about residents and their history, said longtime resident Georgina Berg, who like Spence lived on the flats as a child. That past includes “not-so-happy stories” about forced relocation, missing women, poverty, subsistence hunting, being ignored, deaths, said Berg, who is Cree.

Daley, a dogsled racer and president of

, tells of how the Metis people were especially ignored, abused and punished, yet he ends the history lesson with an abrupt shift.A sign alerts drivers to potential polar bears, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

A sign alerts drivers to potential polar bears, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)this year from Stroeve and York looked at sea ice levels, that 180-day hunger threshold and climate simulations based on different levels of carbon pollution. The researchers found that once Earth warms another 1.3 or 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.3 to 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) from now, the polar bears likely will cross that point of no return. Bears will be too hungry and this population likely dies out.

that look at current efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions project warming of about 1.5 degrees to 1.7 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) from now by the end of the century.“The populations will definitely not make it,” Stroeve said.