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The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible for climate change are among those most hurt by its consequences
By Somini Sengupta & Julfikar Ali Manik @ NYTimes.com, July 30
Torrential rains have submerged at least a quarter of Bangladesh, washing away the few things that count as assets for some of the world’s poorest people — their goats and chickens, houses of mud and tin, sacks of rice stored for the lean season.
It is the latest calamity to strike the delta nation of 165 million people. Only two months ago, a cyclone pummeled the country’s southwest. Along the coast, a rising sea has swallowed entire villages. And while it’s too soon to ascertain what role climate change has played in these latest floods, Bangladesh is already witnessing a pattern of more severe and more frequent river flooding than in the past along the mighty Brahmaputra River, scientists say, and that is projected to worsen in the years ahead as climate change intensifies the rains.[....]
This is one of the most striking inequities of the modern era. Those who are least responsible for polluting Earth’s atmosphere are among those most hurt by its consequences. The average American is responsible for 33 times more planet-warming carbon dioxide than the average Bangladeshi.
This chasm has bedeviled diplomacy for a generation, and it is once again in stark relief as the coronavirus pandemic upends the global economy and threatens to push the world’s most vulnerable people deeper into ruin.
An estimated 24 to 37 percent of the country’s landmass is submerged [....]
Comments
For as long as I remember, long before the term "global warning" was current, floods every year in Bangladesh cover 1/3 of the country - a shocking statistic then and now. These people live in a flood plaun if several if the mightiest rivers in the world coming out of the Himalayas And ending up in the Bay of Bengal. As a comedian said about Ethiopia once, "Move! You live in a fucking desert!"
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/31/2020 - 4:25am
Of course they have nowhere to go, so should we send the Bangladeshis, all one hundred sixty million of them, condoms or life jackets or just advise them to grow gills? As many observant someones much closer to our border must have said dead seriously: Si, no tenemos platanos. No hay trabajos aqui tampoco. Asi que ve a otro. I wish that simple solution could work for everyone trying to keep their head above water. But really, why should I care, I live in the mountains.
by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 07/31/2020 - 12:39pm
Well, as some kind of tearjerker example of global warning, it missed the mark. Life in the delta has always been awful. (Sime question about how bad Churchill's role in the 1943 famine, but it was an ugly chapter).
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/31/2020 - 12:46pm