Indigenous Issues

CLIMATE CHANGE:
"We've Never Seen What We're Seeing Now"

Haider Rizvi
IPS

UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (IPS) - One night about four years ago, Lakhan Bibi's grandfather told her that things in their land were going to change. "How come?" she asked. "Look up to the sky," he said. "You see the moon? It is no longer where it used to be."

To many, it may sound superstitious. But Bibi, a former commercial airline pilot and young leader of the indigenous Kailashi people of the Hindu Kush mountains, has no reason to doubt her grandfather's wisdom. "He was right," she said. "Since that moment things have changed."