“climate refugees”

[rodeodance]

Published on Friday, February 2, 2007 by the Times / UK
Climate of Fear in Sinking Country
Global warming peril to Bangladesh
Flooding may hit 40 million by 2100
by Jeremy Page


When Iman Ali Gain first heard about climate change a couple of years ago, he thought that it was a joke.

How could the habits of people in the West affect him, a 65-year-old shrimp farmer in southwestern Bangladesh?

He still has no concept of the science behind global warming, which will be outlined in a United Nations report today. But he does not need the 2,500 experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to prove that his world is under threat. Climate change here is a day-to-day reality that scientists say could make 17 million Bangladeshis homeless by 2030.

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Thousands of “climate refugees” are estimated to have left the region to find work in the cities or neighbouring India. Those who stay are slowly learning to adapt, with the help of activists such as Mohon Mondal. “When I first told people about climate change, they thought I was crazy,” the 31-year-old geographer said. “Now they know it’s true because they see so much evidence.”

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0202-09.htm

[Joanne98]

1. This is a nightmare!