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Bangladesh: A lang of Climate Vulnerability |
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by shamim ahmed mridha | 16-10-2021 16:53
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Climate change has made Bangladesh particularly vulnerable. Its low elevation, high population density, and limited infrastructure, combined with a farming-based economy, put the country in jeopardy. Bangladeshis have long used migration as a coping technique due to the country's natural sensitivity to catastrophic weather. However, as climate change worsens conditions, more people are being displaced from their homes and land by more frequent and severe risks. Storms, cyclones, drought, erosion, landslides, flooding, and salinization are already displacing significant populations. Climate change is expected to displace one out of every seven people in Bangladesh by 2050. Because of sea-level rise alone, up to 18 million people may be forced to relocate. 28 percent of Bangladesh's population lives on the coast, where tidal flooding due by sea level rise is the leading cause of relocation. Bangladesh may lose around 11% of its land by 2050, due to a projected 50 cm rise in sea level, affecting an estimated 15 million people living in its low-lying coastal region. Rising sea levels have accelerated the salinisation process. Coastal drinking water supplies have become contaminated with salt, exposing the 33 million people who rely on them to health risks like as pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, severe respiratory infections, and skin ailments. Agriculture, the backbone of the Bangladeshi economy, is also suffering, and crops harmed by increased salinity are doubly threatened by the accompanying soil degradation. As a result, several regions have already experienced major yield losses and price decreases. People started to leave their home & usually start going to the mega cities like Dhaka & become a migrant. |
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5 Comments
Hello Shamim, this is your mentor Hannah. Sorry for the late comment!
This news that Bangladesh is vulnerable to climate change is new to me, and it's heartbreaking.
Many countries or islands such as Tuvalu is very very vulnerable to climate change, and I guess other countries that have high population or if their dependency of agriculture is big, they would have more problems because of climate change.
Thank you for your great article and please keep up with your wonderful work :) Happy new year!
Sincerly,
Hannah
Posted 09-01-2022 17:05
Thanks, everyone for your comments on the Climate migrants issue.
Posted 18-10-2021 20:08
Thanks for sharing
Posted 17-10-2021 22:27
Thank you Shamim for the report. I hope that a solution for all the challenges is got.
Posted 17-10-2021 01:49
Hello Shamim, this is your mentor Joon.
It is sad to hear the news that people are being displaced from their homeland
due to climate change. There are regions especially vulnerable to it, and Bangladesh
might be one of those regions. There were studies that concentrated rainfalls are
shown in Bangladesh due to the barricade called Himalayas. As Clouds containing
water rise through the mountains, it starts pouring water as elevations exceeds certain
level. Also, people are vulnerable to cyclones and monsoons so apparently, many people
are moving to mega cities where they have infrastructures to deal with such conditions.
This leads to increased gap between urban and rural regions accelerating the differences.
Hope situations get better soon in Bangladesh.
Thanks for sharing local stories.
Best,
Joon
Posted 16-10-2021 23:17