a poster child on climate change
If there is one country that stands out as the ultimate example for this emerging trend of extreme fluctuations in weather and the water cycle, it is without a doubt Bangladesh. Bangladesh has become the poster child for climate change for many reasons.
BANGLADESH IS ONE OF THE GREATEST VICTIM OF CLIMATE CHANGE
population lives less than 5M above sea level
Approximately 10,000 hectares of land is lost in Bangladesh every year to riverbank erosion.
31.5 million of her people’s will be shelter less by 2050!
It’s almost ten times the amount of people who have left Syria throughout the crisis there.
& we’re on the cusp of seeing major human migrations driven by climate change
30 MILLION (An award winning documentary)
by British climate scientist Dr. Daniel Price
Bangladesh is predicted to lose 17 percent of its land by the end of the century if global sea levels rise by one metre. That has the potential to displace more than 31.5 million Bangladeshis.
The film, Thirty Million, was co-directed by British climate scientist Dr. Daniel Price – who last year cycled from New Zealand to Paris as part of the Pole to Paris campaign – and New Zealand TV journalist Adrien Taylor. The film, financed by UNDP with support from the Least Developed Country Fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was launched by high ranking officials from UNDP, GEF and Bangladesh at an event in the UN Secretariat in New York City.
The film is now available for free viewing online at thirtymillionfilm.org.
“It’s hard for people to grasp the enormity of the issue when we talk about 30 million Bangladeshis at risk of being displaced by climate change and rising seas,” says Dr. Price. “It’s almost ten times the amount of people who have left Syria throughout the crisis there.”
“We’re on the cusp of seeing major human migrations driven by climate change,” adds Mr Taylor.
While “Thirty Million” highlights explicitly the plight of the people of Bangladesh, attendees at the screening in New York emphasized that the global challenge of climate change is everyone’s concern and that more has to be done, sooner and with more intensity, in order to reign in global temperature rise.
During the shoot one question has been asked by director to a geology professor, that is- where will the people go at that time? by keep silent for few moments he answered- “I don’t know”.
Reality is no one know the answer & even nobody wants to know. How long we human destroy our atmosphere by our own hand?
DHAKA
A city of climate change slums. Up to 400,000 climate migrants arrive in Dhaka every year.
Where we already give shelter more than 1 million rohingya refugees in our country.
Although Bangladesh emits only 0.21% of global greenhouse gas emissions[worldometers.info].
Where the top three greenhouse gas emitters are China, The United States, European Union contributes 41.5% of total global emissions.
India, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Mexico & Indonesia the top 10 emitters account for over 2/3 of global GHG emissions.
& The greatest victim of climate change not only us but the entire humanity…
It’s a climate crime, it’s a climate injustice!
THERE IS ONLY TWO WAY….
LET’S SINK TOGETHER OR
TAKE THE RESPONISIBILTY TO CHANGE IT….
REVIVE YOUR HEART & RAISE YOUR VOICE WITH US
AGAINST CLIMATE INJUSTICE
TO SAVE OUR LAND OUR MAP
TO SAVE OUR LONELY MOTHER EARTH…
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!
