No remedy for the Inuit

It truly is a disgrace how the Inuit are being ignored. The situation represents a vulnerable population housing an even more vulnerable population and the big, bad U.S. slowly but surely killing them.This at first seems like a strong statement, but it doesn't seem like such a huge leap when we keep in mind that present generations of Inuit are being affected by the air, land and water pollution that is destroying their land, homes, food, and health. Former Vice President Gore states in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth that the icy regions are melting and throwing off the delicate balance of nature. Among other things, animals are dying because of lack of appropriate food and shelter, vegetation is blooming and hibernating/dying too early, and foreign species are moving in, filling in, and overpopulating the spaces left. The Inuit people live in tune with nature; therefore if the natural balance is upset, the livelihood of the Inuit is also in danger.
This article relates to the recurring theme of the mistreatment and marginalization of populations. For example, the film, La Operacion, shows Puerto Rican women being used as guinea pigs to test contraceptives. Many experienced short term and lang term negative health consequences as a result. Americans encouraging these birth control tactics didn't show much concern since the ultimate goal -curbing the Latino population -was being acheived anyway. Here as in the Inuit reading, the health and wellness of a minority is outshadowed by the majority's perception of a greater good. While positive outcomes do result from both interventions (even though it is difficult to see the positivity of the Inuit's situation through all the pollution, they do still exist... the biggest issue is the Inuits don't see much of the benefits), the primary issues of consent, health, individual sovereignty, and human rights/justice bubble up slowly. As with the eugenic movement in Puerto Rico, however and unfortunately, America won't stop muscling the Inuit people around and hiding behind bureacracy until someone paints them as self-centered murderers.