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and the world seems to pay attention to bangladesh only when catastrophe strikes them but for bangladeshis natural disasters have become part of everyday life here and entire villages feed the affects of climate change. this woman has lost her home. for the bush where will i live now. we're tearing down the house i first came to thirty years ago when i got married i gave birth to my four children there my two daughters got married there it just

breaks my heart. the extreme conditions people here face may soon affect us all. from the look of the earth six kilometers from here we had two hectares of land or sea cobbled them up. most bangladeshi climate refugees moved to the mega city of dhaka the country's capital. an estimated two thousand people arriving every day. during monsoon season the number rises to four thousand today.

the world's second largest river delta is located on the bay of bengal two large rivers flow through the country from north to south the brahmaputra and the gun jeez much of the land in bangladesh is flat and its numerous rivers often burst their banks the country is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change a real danger for its one hundred sixty million people. there are a number of factors involved in the impacts of human induced. change on the river systems and the water systems first made the glacier ice melt in the himalayas the second impact is on flooding we will have greater amounts in intensity use of

rainfall during the monsoon which will cause more flooding we are already seeing that what used to be a one hundred twenty year flood has now effectively become a one in five year flood so the magnitude of floods has increased already and will increase even more with human induced climate change and the third factor. that come from the building wall in the south those are going to become more intense and we are going to have to deal with higher intensity cycles. even now at the beginning of monsoon season the brahmaputra is nine kilometers wide at some points it's filled with melted snow from the himalayas another effect of climate change. in future other rivers around the world may experience similar increases in water volume. this is where the brahmaputra

merges with the gandhi's to become the padma. when these rivers flood it can have a devastating effect on nearby communities. as here in the village of hard rampur. i did not hear on the left the part in the river destroyed everything in just three days. on the right everything was gone in four days. the river has covered an area sixty one hector's in our village three hundred families lost their homes because of the extreme river erosion. of our government boarded with everything in your. practice i'm really scared our house may be gone soon. eleven year old mahfouz hussain walks past an area that used to be

a garden. the local residents are preparing to move inland to escape the rising water. one of my friends his neighbor says he's not going to let the river take history. mahfouz his house is fifty yards from the danger zone but the situation here could become worse when monsoon season starts. this used to be the center of the village now it looks like a battlefield you can still see the remains of several houses. this fragile sapling has become a symbol for the villagers as floods caused by climate change consumed the ground beneath their feet.

until yesterday montages big lived in this house with several members of her family including her son his wife and their child. i didn't sleep at all last night. i'm worried that i'm going to drown in the flood waters. the house was the family's pride and joy montages son and some workers are salvaging everything they can from the structure. where will i live now my house is gone. i'll have to rely on the kindness of

others but. i'm going to have to move to dot com and find a job so i can afford to come back here buy some land and rebuild my parents out of . the river flooded the family's farmland two years ago montages husband and her oldest son left to take construction jobs in the united arab emirates the younger son celine has now also become a climate refugee in his own country. and of course the look i'm so sorry my father built this house and now i have to tear it down really hurts. my feelings. that doesn't really work. is saying a prayer. now departed remember where does all this water come from.

the gang is the longest from the himalayan mountains into india for about two thousand kilometers before it comes to bangladesh how much of the water is taken away upstream in india by a series of dams the biggest being the for a goddamn just outside the border of bangladesh as a result bangladesh is locked receiving as much water as it used to in the dry season the problem is in the monsoon season they open up all the water they let it come to bangladesh but during the dry season they dig the water away and divert it away from bangladesh and we don't get enough water so we have floods in the. period and we have too little water in the dry season. i don't know that. accidental death.

the lives of these people have been severely disrupted by the effects of climate change and the water resource policies of a neighboring country bangladeshis are left with few options but to try to protect themselves. selene and the others transport the walls and roof of the house deep into the forest he hopes to return to the village one day he hopes that the job he finds in dhaka earn him enough money to buy some land here many in a village have similar plans. no one here actually wants to go to the capital but they believe they have no other choice. from the money ganja region we moved south west to the push sure river which flows through the show and our bands region. are bands means

beautiful forest in bengali. the area covers ten thousand square kilometers most of it in bangladesh. and it's home to the world's largest mangrove forests region. it's also a unesco world heritage site. but it sure was is actually seen as the lungs of which it absorbs all the while you're shopping for us to sunderbans protect bangladesh and if we lose that protection then the country will support. this should our bonds forest helps to protect millions of people from floods that are caused by cyclons. it also offers a rich habitat for wildlife including the endangered bengal tiger the region is the country's largest source of forest based bra materials but its future is under threat. the sugar. in for before our eyes. i mean

packs of climate change. because that they have been slowly rising salt water is getting into the freshwater channels of the bans. and there's another environmental threat the government plans to build a coal fired power plant in the region. very poor only a detailed study of that so that it will not harm to the environment and this is not so many actually. means we have planned what. we'd be from the cold but he could be. many are against the power plant which is a joint venture between public sector power agencies in bangladesh and india. india will build the plant located near rampart under the supervision of a german company. once construction is completed india would also operate the

facility. unesco has asked the government to provide an environmental impact study on the project. it is completely a disastrous decision to build a coal fired power plant so close to the forest and all environmental indications indicate that it will bring disastrous consequences for the survival of the forest and in general for the environment we have in fact from save the. produce seventeen reports from various aspects that what will be the effect. on flora and fauna in the runs itself on the water there be very notion about the dredging problem and everything. which shows very scientifically that it's

definitely going to harm. india will supply the coal that the plant will burn. the potion a river is to be dredged nearby to make room for the transport ships environmental experts say the dredging operation will contribute to river erosion. this is the poor sure river about ninety kilometers above the point where it empties into the bay of bengal. there are numerous fishing villages along the riverbanks. the christian minority in this village have put up a cross. people have to walk carefully through the mud so they don't fall. through the roof.

of the now. the main entrance to our old church was over there we built a new one but the river took it to. act well. fifteen days ago i lost my house again. to river erosion. by going in a tizzy. it was on this side where the poster river is now. getting my house was next to that church entrance. the effects of climate change often hit the poorest of the poor the hardest. swapna khan is raising a teenage son and her husband is ill. after the last flood a neighbor allowed her to build a small dwelling on his property she used materials from what was left of her house

. solar energy panels are common here in a village that has been ravaged by the effects of climate change. i'd like to that my son sleeps back there and i sleep here in the front this is all we have. and i. don't know harvests river shrimp and sells them in the hut they sleep in her son attends a local school she wants him to have a better life there have already helped them i can't read or write so i don't have a lot of options i was born here and i don't want to live anywhere else i can earn a little money here just enough to get by. swap now also owns a few sheep. she calls them her life insurance policy she can sell the sheep to pay for her son's education. but for now she's concerned about the river

which is moving closer to her home. so what does elderly neighbor is also worried about the rising water. i told my son that when i die he should put my body in the river because there's no land left to bury me. we travel from the village of ban gun quick to china come on young. the scenes of devastation are almost identical.

and if you know so much about it but would this is the grave of my grandfather more know what it was and if we could find some god that i could take the great with me and rebuild it before you could look up. then relieve us of our climbs a coconut tree to get some of its fruits before the river washes those away to. nothing here is safe from the rising water. not even the graves of the dead.

in the similar scene in the next village eight people live here. the family of kumar mondal woman's a living as a fisherman. his wife ruth about char says they've had to rebuild their house three times. a lot about neighbors have gone to dhaka to work in the textile factories and there are a few a fish in the river the ones who want to. feel . shanteau and his son fish in the show dogs just like his father before him now shanta fears that the coal fired power plants will pollute the water here. if we don't catch enough fish. i have to take a job as a day laborer. with the.

fee. for. fees. fees for no one i can't move my entire family to the city how to lower the quality . so. from the show we now move east to bulla the largest island in bangladesh. fortified dikes were built along the make now river after the last round of floods .

the dikes were built too late to help mohammad most of. his village was washed away by the river three years ago. because he couldn't farm anymore he turned to fishing . and. there was a mosque here a school and some houses. but because the river erosion and flooding we had to move to another village alicia more than a hector of my land is underwater here in. the village of any shop is now protected by the dike but only a few of the two thousand residents of mohammad's old village have been able to find a new home mohammed says he was lucky because a local resident rented him some land and he built

a new house there. he lives here with his wife one of his three sons his daughter in law and a grandchild. his son hair helps his father on a fishing boat the family can't grow their own vegetables anymore so they have to buy them. this is mohammed's daughter in law and his grandchild. i've had to move three times because of river road. if it happens again we're all have to go to talk. or you believe that but. i would love i see my two brothers already live there we had no money to pay for my younger brother's education. twenty kilometers up stream we find another village ravaged by flood waters the

dike burst here four days ago. did you know it was the day of the muslim feast of the sacrifice on the river carried away everything we owned there was a cycle and a lot of rain the wind flattened my home i still come to the river every day i was terrified and i can still feel it in my bones. the river has taken everything. i don't know how to survive this. economic you could watch while you could see. the farmer mohamed new rule lives in the village of dory rampur. we had a lot of field scattered around the village almost a whole hectare of land. and. only this rice field remains but the water no longer drains off. the authorities

have built a new dike here and a storm shelter but the shelter is dangerously close to the river bank. and the dike has cut off mohammed's village from the rest of the region. to. the second look at this rice the roots are rotting i have no idea what to do nothing. should i move. allah help me and show me the way with kabul. the local residents fear that the magna river will soon wash away everything.

this is what's left of mohammed's house his young family and parents now sleep in temporary accommodations. there's an old saying in bangladesh water is the mother of our country. but mama believes that is no longer the case. over here on the water used to mean life to me but now it means death. and. flooding is not new in the flat country bangladesh. it was once welcomed. the rivers deposit a little soil throughout the delta region and this creates some of the country's best farmland. but now it is from eighty's to seventy's. new rules change is happening because of all sources on the song of the cyclops

because of the sea water rise and because of the high speed of the when. you hold up and the safety of the body because. he's downplaying i have done. so the speed of the water baby i don't need a few feet watch second to water the speed that it is creating that big that it will. although these people that maybe know some victim of that. because they had a meeting on leave think eighteen's up on anyone but compared to develop things developed countries people anything north less than fifty two point b. johnson.

due to the sea level rise which is the beginning to happen one which will happen in a major way in bangladesh beyond twenty fifty according to the i pursue says triple bangladesh will lose anything between seventeen to twenty per cent of a scot and lambastes a twenty person land loss to the sea due to sea level rise will cause the air at least twenty five to thirty million people to be displaced within the country so we are going to create a modest refugee population beautifully change in one single country. the school which has two thousand pupils is threatened by the rising river even now . the primary school has already been shut down the remaining rooms are now

overcrowded. but the loss of livelihoods of the population will be much larger we're talking about twenty to thirty percent of the population of the country that will be badly affected those living in the coastal areas in the lancaster areas and eventually they will have to move so they are the potential future climate like groups and that clearly they are undoubtedly climate like. these fortified cement blocks that make up the dike new digital age and. are being undermined by the river that flows past. at least one of the blocks falls into the water every day. if the blocks aren't holding up so this area will be flooded too. it's dangerous for all of us.

from a show it's. hardly a day passes when mohammed must have how much he does not see ships full of people headed for dhaka. every day there are more than two hundred slums in dhaka are receiving more and more what bun might call environmental refugees or even climate change refugees coming from other parts of the country to cut the city police. the. police.

dog has now come to a size of twenty million people without their adequate infrastructure selling. on the outskirts of the city factory waste and garbage laid dumped on the streets. sello teen is mohammed most of them my g.'s twenty six year old son he now lives in a slum that's located near the textile factory where he works.

in the textile workers share this public bath feel. if my parents land hadn't been flooded i'd still be in the village going to school so that if you don't call it. an advantage it into over and we had to move three or four times because of flooding my parents finally ran out of money. that's why i had to come to dhaka so fast i worked in a shop but it didn't pay much that's why i switched to the textile factory and got mislead and. so tina his wife and child live in this small apartment. or they don't sell us up to life in the village was good i went to school man lived in my parents' house i won't see that kind of life ever again.

there's no work in bona so i had to move here. i did the alpha world this is some daily routine his job at the textile factory. thank you. thank. you. thank you. thank. you thank you. thousands of other climate refugees make a similar trip every day. thanks. in front of the factory day laborers

gather to see whether there's any work available for them that day. slavery. ulla place people also wait outside the big companies around the corner to find out whether there are any jobs for them today. until. utley. i. i but the one hour marcinko i make the equivalent of about one hundred twenty five year hours a month. i have to support my wife and child pay the rent and buy food i spend everything her out of the grocery. it's cheap labor the clothing that's

made here is later. in western countries including germany and france. mohammed's wife earns a little extra money at home by sewing clothes for the textile companies. and i get five cents per blouse my neighbor brings them over one quarter of the money that my husband earns goes to pay the rent. being in the. hell out of you i know but if we get sick we have to borrow money from our families that's the only way that we can afford to see a doctor. other word of it was you know what they're. saying is the boatman from both mohammed my g.'s eldest son. he sells mangoes on the streets of dukkha. here he's buying his

fruit at a big wholesale market. he was ill for three months and his debts piled up. so huge and a neighbor transport the mangoes in a bicycle cart may share the cost of renting the vehicle. is filled with street vendors. many climate refugees live in miserable conditions there's garbage everywhere and open sewers nearby. some people who came here from the island of bola have formed their own community they call it the bonus slum. the area is surrounded by high rise buildings where white collar workers live. many of the slums residents work in those homes. so it's wife earns extra money by

cleaning apartments. playing. so we went hungry and bala i had no choice but to move to dhaka what else could i do with our house was gone and the river cut flooding i didn't have much of a choice said about the theatre. saved his wife and two children live in this cramped room. and it was. so your sister has also had to move to dhaka. by laying. down.

the school that this is michael. both go to school. my wife and i can't read or write but we want the children to have an education to work for. or get little i want to take my family back to paula there's no future for me and doctors over. i'd like to build a house in the village and my kids could go to school. i. estimated one third of the cars population live in slums the city's infrastructure is on the verge of collapse. what would happen if up to thirty million more people moved to duck out over the next twenty years there would very likely be severe shortages of food and water. and the car itself is at risk from the effects of climate change the city is situated on a movie on flatland and surrounded by lakes and rivers. the climate refugees often

build their shacks in areas that are flooded during the monsoon season. there are no toilets and they have no clean drinking water. since many of the refugees are living in illegal squatter settlements local officials arrive on a regular basis to evict them. sometimes only the refugees can take with them is food most in bias. once again the refugees are driven from their homes not by floods this time but by the government. if we are all able to completely magisters it can lead to call

flaked it will lead to be stabilization it can lead to social call for a. we didn't country all with the region or it can lead to interstate conflict between states and countries so in all accounts the consequences this is of are just need that we need to get a clear understanding of the whole issue of managing editor for jews in large numbers so that we have the brick and isms and plays when it happens. it seems as though we are already seen the early stages of these conflicts. why is the government doing this to us the old fart is were bribed to do this. there is no justice for the poor. this government is just useless. at twenty five to thirty million displaced refugees will not only be stabilized

bangladesh from within it would also destabilize the stability and the security of the region because it will result in large scale trans boundary migration into the neighboring regions of the country that will cause serious destabilisation on their regional scale. we move onto the island of crete to deal on the bay of bengal. along the coast of bangladesh the sea level is rising by up to twenty one millimeters per year the world average is three millimeters the coastline is so flat that major floods can cause enormous damage. you see them back and has.

some line or having to leave the houses in just four days if the force is. but i don't see a very strong. comment is constructing this back every year but it is unable to sustain. reason karim choudhry executive director of a coastal protection organization warns about potential health hazards. people start getting into water thinking water. high level of p.p.d. so i mean so it's creating a black pressure high and creating a lot of. people out unprotected. from the climate change. basically especially the start of the mission which is around not less than forty million. unicef supports chartres organization which provides micro credits and other support for people who've been affected by

flooding storms and other natural disasters. choudhry believes that once the monsoon season starts the storms will destroy this family's home young good hobbles and action he points out that developed countries will not reach this year's paris agreement targets for limiting global warming and reducing c o two emissions experts say that's a major cause for concern but to make it. concretely it means that the whole world is in very great danger bangladesh is only one part of the world by militias the first part of the world which will be inundated by sea level rise and affected by the impacts of climate change but every country in the world including germany is going to be affected sooner or later the best way to express the very are there are we also together or we would all sing together. result karim choudhry says the locals don't know that they are climate refugees. so you

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