Issues of Greenland By laurarutty Sep 17, 1953 Inhabitants of Greenland are declared Danish citizens Sep 17, 1970 Number of suicides begin to rise Sep 17, 1975 Suicide rates are 4x higher than Denmark Sep 17, 1975 Greenland sends high school graduates to Danish universities Sep 17, 1975 Not one Greenlandic student has graduated from university since 1955 Sep 17, 1975 Citizens don't feel free because they don't govern themselves Sep 19, 1975 Greenlanders don't feel free because they don't govern themselves Sep 19, 1975 Scientists started to notice increasing temperatures Sep 17, 1979 Greenland becomes a special cultural community in the KIngdom of Denmark Sep 17, 1985 Greenland gets their own flag and town names Sep 17, 1986 Greenland's suicide rate peaks Sep 17, 2007 The average temperature of ice caps rises 16 degrees Sep 17, 2007 Sea ice is disappearing Sep 19, 2008 Greenland has lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice since 2008 Sep 17, 2009 Coasts should be surrounded by 30-40 miles of ice but is now surrounded by much less Sep 17, 2009 Greenland is granted more autonomy Sep 17, 2009 Suicide rate is 100 people per 100 000 inhabitants Jul 30, 2013 Greenland reaches the highest recorded temperature since modern records began in 1958 Sep 17, 2013 Official name becomes Kalaallit Nunaat Sep 17, 2013 Greenland still gets significant financial aid from Denmark Sep 17, 2013 Gardening is starting to generate more revenue than fishing
