ABSTRACT
An environmental warming, albeit one more ecosocial than biophysical, is already under way from the perspective of Canadian Inuit. While climate change may pose a future threat to natural resources and human populations, there is already considerable stress on northern human-environmental relations. The rapidly expanding gap between Inuit consumptive use of northern renewable resources and the environmental concerns of a Qallunaat public have significantly altered the resources and social fabric of the Canadian Arctic. The Neo-Atlantic warming first changed the ecology of the eastern Arctic and then affected Inuit culture. The driving force behind modern-day Inuit cultural change is an effort to alter southern perceptions of the Arctic, including the place of Inuit in northern ecosystems. An evaluation of the cultural biases of North-focused environmentalism could help ameliorate ongoing biosocial impacts on Inuit.
