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Topic Reading-Vol.3646-4/5/2022
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants
Bangladesh is a country in South Asia that shares borders with India and Myanmar and has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. With a population of over 160 million just in 130 thousand square kilometers, it is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Unfortunately, the population density is expected to go even higher as the population has been and will be increasing steadily. Also, the Bengal region is losing habitable land space as the sea level rises and the number of floods increases because of global warming. In fact, nearly 20 million people are going to have to lose their jobs, land, and home and relocate somewhere by the middle of the century. Mongola, a riverside town about 50 kilometers inland from the Bay of Bengal, is one such place where people are moving in to start new lives. New infrastructures are being set to accommodate the increasing population and more factories are being built to provide jobs. However, the country is already too densely populated and transportation and housing infrastructures are far from sufficient. For example, many people are waiting in long lines just to catch a boat to cross the river to work. On the boat, they have to keep standing next to each other without social distancing.
Read the article and see the photos of people’s lives under global warming.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/30/photos-bangladesh-town-offering-new-life-to-climate-migrants
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