So when President Biden suspended oil drilling leases for a vast Arctic wilderness on the veteran whaling captain’s doorstep last month he felt the weight of that long history. Like a great many people from his community, Brower, 73, a former mayor of the North Slope borough, the local municipal government, was furious. Whale bones are used to hang the sign outside the Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church in Barrow, North Slope ALAMYWhen he was growing up nearby his family were semi-nomadic. They moved between a “sod house” made of reinforced earth and a tent. In his early teens he was sent away to a boarding school run by

Source: The Times July 29, 2021 16:02 UTC