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Impact of Climate Change in Bangladesh |
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e know that Bangladesh is among the disaster prone countries and is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world regarding to climate change. Nearly every year this country experiences disasters like coastal erosions, droughts, floods, storm surges, tropical erosion etc. All these disasters cause loss of many lives and property damages and the development activities are put in danger. The country Bangladesh is already has many problems like large population density means it has nearly of 130 million populations and so the scarcity of land to provide accommodation. In Bangladesh is a poor country and here poverty, illiteracy, human health and so forth are the common issues.
Due to all these reason the Bangladesh becomes more vulnerable in the climate change. It is believed that in the coming days due to global warming Bangladesh will suffer more. Number of studies shows that climate changes have great impact on Bangladesh. The series of unusual events like dying trees of Sundarbans Nature Reserve, rough weathers and rising sea level etc all shows that impact is already seen. Generally every year fishermen are warned to stay at home for 2-3 months due to the rising level of sea but due to poverty nobody can afford to stay at home and it causes heavily loss of lives.
Due to coastal erosion thousands or more than fishermen loose their house and properties and so the country Bangladesh has the primary issue to survive against climate change. The main fact for vulnerability of Bangladesh is that this country is basically one vast river delta and so prone to weather changes. The people who live in south-east many times have lack of drinking water, electricity ad foods etc. In the Dhaka, people pays more rent for 1st, 2nd and upper floors compare to the ground floor and this is because of more chances of floods. Almost all weather experts say that the Bangladesh’s weather is continuously growing very extreme. And since this country is the most densely populated country so surviving has become a great challenge due to rising level of sea.
Many times, Bangladesh has faced problems like cyclones. Bangladesh is situated at the Bay of Bengal so cyclones have the worst effect on this country. The continuous rainfall causes to flood in the Bangladesh and due to flooding agricultures get devastated. In 2004, there was nearly 350 mm of rainfall in a single day. But if Bangladesh suffers from flooding problem, many times due to climate change it faces drought also and people suffers many problems. The quirk of fate was that many times when the north-east was experiencing its heaviest rainfall and simultaneously north-west was suffering from drought. The scientists are worried of the melting glaciers of the Himalayas since due to this Bangladesh’s rivers levels are slightly increasing. We discussed about the climate change in Bangladesh but this is not the only countries who are suffering from climate change due to global warming and there are many countries that are becoming prone to this change. So global warming is the extreme threat for the existence of the lives.
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