Bangladesh: A lang of Climate Vulnerabilityby 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. |
