Could American Indian Nations “End Nature?” in Order to Save Themselves from Global Warming?

This paragraph appears in an article published the Summer 2011 edition of Radcliffe Magazine:

Assuming (and you know what they say about assumptions) Mr. Keith is right, this raises an interesting question relating to tribal sovereignty. If an Indian nation could do this, should they? And some Indian nations, say the Native Village of Kivalina for one example, have every motivation for doing this.