Oil and subsistence in the warming Arctic: A conversation with Tom Kizzia

The view from Point Hope, late winter 2015. (Photo by Ellen Chenoweth/University of Alaska Fairbanks)In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, Alaska writer and longtime former ADN reporter Tom Kizzia looks back at the debate over offshore drilling in North Slope communities. Kizzia visited Point Hope to report on how climate change is affecting the region’s twin pillars: oil development and subsistence hunting.
He spoke with Rachel Waldholz of Alaska’s Energy Desk from Homer, wher