Fastest warming place on Earth: Five years after its formation, Anchorage's Citizen Climate Lobby boasts a core group of about five people out of a population of 295,000

Citizens Climate Lobby: The time is now to act on climate change, Alaska | Alaska Dispatch

It is a strange aspect of northern life — not to mention frustrating and disheartening — to live in a place, Alaska, where the effects of climate change are so pronounced and where, at the same time, so many residents seem unconcerned, uninformed, unconvinced, or simply in denial...Given his own growing concern and Saunders’ vision, Thrall agreed to form an Anchorage chapter of the [Citizens Climate Lobby]. That was about five years ago. In the years since, the Anchorage group has numbered between 10 and 15 participants, with a core group of about five people.   [Via SC]

Population of Anchorage

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