Threshold S2E8: Oil And Water

Published December 11, 2018 at 12:47 PM MST

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Price Leavitt is the executive director of the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, the regional tribal government, and a whaling captain."

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Price Leavitt is the executive director of the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, the regional tribal government, and a whaling captain."

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Gordon Brower is the director of the planning department of the North Slope Borough and a whaling captain in northern Alaska.

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Gordon Brower is the director of the planning department of the North Slope Borough and a whaling captain in northern Alaska.

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Utqiagvik, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States.

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Utqiagvik, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States.

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What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, Alaska trying to answer that question.

Each season, Threshold explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season two is all about the Arctic: what it is, what's changing there, and why that matters for everybody.

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