The original ecologists: the Inuit and global discourse on sustainability
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite being few in number, disparate, lacking any obvious political power capabilities and competing with some of the world’s most powerful and wealthy states and corporations, the Inuit have proved to be an effective voice for sustainability in the face of the increasing encroachment on and environmental degradation of their lands. Whilst globalization in these ways serves to threaten their culture, the Inuit have used this very phenomenon to their advantage with skilful, cooperative diplomacy which has secured significant political gains, highlighted their plight and given them an unlikely new prominence in international relations. In doing so this Inuit campaign has showcased to the world a distinct political and economic model for the sustainable management of land and resources with relevance well beyond the Arctic. However, whilst this has enriched global discourse and governance on climate change and other environmental issues, Inuit notions of sustaina-bility are not always neatly aligned with western ecological norms promoted by green NGOs. In particular, the ethical tide against hunting advanced by the global green movement jars with the sustainable continuation of this traditional practise by the ‘original ecologists’. Probably the greatest challenge for advancing this model of sustainability, though, comes from within the Inuit community itself by those tempted by new opportunities for a ‘dash for growth’ as the ice retreats and the MNCs advance. This article explores the evolution and impact of this unique Inuit voice for sustainability, paradoxically increasing in global influence at the same time as this lifestyle has come to be most threatened.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".