August 25, 2008
Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
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Bangladesh is a drowning land. The last major cyclone killed 3,000 and left millions living in tents, with barely any food or drinking water. With the land literally disappearing beneath the feet of the ever increasing population, it’s a problem that shows no sign of easing. Discover an extraordinary and devastated landscape that’s on the front line of climate change, with water levels rising inexorably and floods that once occurred every 20 years now happening every five. 3 Comments
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im glad to be the first. i find the world among us changing so drastically and always ending devastatingly. im most proud to take action and support just one of these issues in our world today
- from youth of the world JEN
This is only the first step in a path that leads to the next ice age. Storms will get worse, billions will lose their homes and the now fetile lands will become desert. Everything will be lost. Then the earth will be renewed. Not by some magical "god", but by the planet itself. Get ready for the cycle to start again people. Humans survived the last ice age but many will not be that lucky.
Are these due to Climate Change?
Are these not the adverse impacts of unplanned engineering intervetions in the fragile delta, serious reduction of upstream fresh water discharge to the low lying coastal flood plain, failure of flood embankments and coastal polders resulting from very poor construction and maintenance, and more settlements on flood plains which are expected to inundated regularly. |
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