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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 an entire village is the effects of climate change. this woman has lost her home. 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. over the earth six kilometers from here we had two hectares of land a sequel to mark. 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 gandhi's much of the land in bangladesh is flat and it's 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 to me 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 how poor.

it was. i did not hear on the left the partner 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. beginning of. october 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 food his neighbor says he's not going to let the river take history. my food 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 consume 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 floodwaters. of. the house was the family's pride and joy montages son and some workers are salvaging everything they can from the structure. i don't. know. where will i live now my house is gone. i'll have to rely on the kindness of others. but i want to go i'm going to have to move to dhaka find a job so i can afford to come back here buy some land and rebuild my parents out of

. the river flooded the big 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. no question that i'm so sorry my father built this house and now i have to tear it down really hard it's. kind of like. my feeling of. guilt in the middle of a montage saying a prayer. for 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 where much of the water is taken

away upstream in india by a series of dance 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 take 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. oh. i know that. atlanta has. held up. 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 pusher river which flows through the show and our bonds region. our bonds means beautiful forest in bengali us 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. fish and the vase is actually seen as the lungs of bangladesh it absorbs all of that while you shine for us to sunderbans protect bangladesh and if we lose that protection then the country knows that. the shooter bans forest helps to protect millions of people from floods that are caused by cyclons if it also offers or. each 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. in far before our eyes. and i mean packs of climate change. because they have been gone a slowly rising salt water is getting into the freshwater channels of the banks.

and there's another environmental threat the government plans to build a coal fired power plant in the region. very poorly and detailed study of that so that people not how much to the environments and this is not so many actually. that's the case we have planned what. we before the court but you could be told that. 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.

you know skull has asked the government to provide an environmental impact study on the project. it is completely a disastrous decision to build a coal fired so close to the forest and all environmentalists indications indicate that it would bring disastrous consequences for the survival of the forest and in general for the environment we have in fact from save the. produce seventy. reports from various aspects that what will be the effect. on flora and fauna on the shin 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 river banks. on the christian minority in this village have put up a cross. people have to walk carefully through the mud so they don't fall. and you. learned. the main entrance to our old church was over there we built a new one but the river took it to. act.

fifteen days ago i lost my house again. to river erosion. by going in. it was on this side where the postal 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. what is raising a teenaged 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 might say 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 i want to tell 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 well it's a. 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.

was elderly neighbor is also worried about the rising water. and 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 cool to chill and come on you know. the scenes of devastation almost identical. to. this is the grave

of my grandfather more know what it was and if we could find some doctor i could take the grave with me and rebuild it before he could move them. then boniva star climbs the 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.

a similar scene in the next village eight people live here. the family of shoeshine two of kumar mondal who are in the living as a fisherman. his wife group 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. and they want to. feel sure shanteau and his son fish in the sure bonds just like his father before him now shanta fears that the coal fired power plant will pollute the water here. if we don't catch enough fish. i'll have to take a job as a day laborer. he

so. far from no one i can't move my entire family to the city house alone. so far. from the banks we now move east to bulla the largest island in bangladesh. fortified dikes were built along the meghna 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 . 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 mohammed'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 abouta hair helps his father on the

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 well i'll have to go to dhaka. or you believe that a. i would love i fear my two brothers already live there we had no money to pay for my younger brother's education of. twenty kilometers upstream we find another village ravaged by flood waters the dike burst here four days ago. 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 we get. the farmer mohammad noble lives in the village of derby ran poor. we had a lot of field scattered around the village almost a whole hectare of land lost. in vain only this rise 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 now. should i move. help me and show me the way. you 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 mohammed believes that is no longer the case. always here on the water used to mean not 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 a piece to seventy's that hughes changes is happening because of the one sources on the song of the psych wards because of the sea water rise and because of the high speed of the one.

you hold up and the safety of the body bags. with these damn time higher than the government. so to speed up the work baby i don't mean young to get paid but second to watch them speak then it is clear thing that they thought it. although these people that play the notes and victim of the crime because they had a meeting only three katie's up got one anyway but compared to their reluctance and even the country's people in a meeting place then fifty two point b. johnson.

due to the sea level rise which the beginning to happen on which will happen in a major way in bangladesh beyond for it to fifty according to the i pursue says triple bangladesh will lose everything between seventeen to twenty per cent of a spot of land boss at twenty percent land loss to the sea due to sea level rise will cause the at least twenty five to thirty million people to be displaced within the country so we are going to create a modest refugee population due to climate change in one single country. this 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 course lariats in the lancaster areas and eventually they will have to move so they are the potential future climate like groups and clearly they are undoubtedly climate like. these fortified cement blocks that make up the dike new development and he. shot are being undermined by the river that flows past. at least one of the blocks falls into the water every day. 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 dukkha. something. and he. and. every day there are more than two hundred slums in dhaka are receiving more and more what fun might call environmental refugees or even climate change refugees coming from other parts of the country to the city police. he.

has now come to a size of trade a million people with the adequate infrastructure. on the outskirts of the city factory waste and garbage laid dumped on the streets. 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. since the textile workers share this public bath feel that if my parents land hadn't been flooded i'd still be in the village going to school so

that if you don't follow. the divine it is akin to them that 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 first i worked in a shop but it didn't pay much that's why i switched to the textile factory and got me into. so teen his wife and child live in this small apartment. or the doing. life in the village was good i went to school and lived in my parents' house i won't say that kind of life ever again i know. there's no work in bona so i had to move here. but i did it before. this is so the teams david ability his job at the textile factory wave thank

you thank. me. thank you thank. you thank. thousands of other climate refugees make a similar trip every day. length. in front of the factory day laborers gather to see whether there's any work available for them that day. ull

illegible people also wait outside the big companies around the corner to find out whether there are any jobs for them today. oh. thanks. i. i but the one hour mustn't go i make the equivalent of about one hundred twenty five year hours a month so. i have to support my wife and child pay the rent and buy food while i spend everything her out of the grocery. it's cheap labor the clothing that's made here is later. all in western countries including germany and france.

mohammed's wife earns a little extra money at home by sewing clothes for the textile companies. a fee 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. anything of that they. have out of your own 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. and. other words he was on the other. side is the boatman from bala mohammed my jeans 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. the car 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 yes 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 cup flooding i didn't have much of a choice said about that. saeed his wife and two children live in this cramped room. of the. same sister has also had to move to dhaka. by laying. down. a school of this is michael. it's both go to school. my wife and i can't read or

write but we want the children to have an education should i work for. or little i want to take my family back to paula there's no future for me and doctors over. that i'd like to build a house in the village and my kids can go to school. i want it i will value out of . an estimated one third of the cars population live in slums the city's infrastructure is on the verge of collapse so. what would happen if up to thirty million more people moved to dakar over the next twenty years there would very likely be severe shortages of food and water. and a car that itself is at risk from the effects of climate change the city is situated on a movie or 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 vice. you know. once again the refugees are driven from their homes not by floods this time but by the government . if we all be able to completely manage this it can lead to call flaked it really to be stabilization it can lead to social call for. we didn't country or within 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 to have a terrific use of large numbers so that we have them because as i'm someplace 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 destabilize 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 membrane regions of the country that will cause serious destabilisation on their regional scale. we move on to the island of crete to dia 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 as. some line or coming will be the houses here just for this is the forces. but i don't see is a very strong. comment he's constructing peace backman every year but it is unable

to sustain. a reasonable karim choudhry executive director of a coastal protection organization warns about potential health hazards. people start getting into water thinking water. a high level of p.p.d. so i mean so it is creating a black pressure high and creating a lot of. people are unprotected. from the climate. basic in this region of the commission which is around not less than forty million people. unicef supports child research 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 homes 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 to begin. concretely it means that the whole world is in very great danger by all of this is only one part of the world but all of this is 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 those will be are there we also together or we would all sing together. result karim choudhry says the locals don't know if they are climate refugees. so you became the climate controls these are top one hundred fields but they don't

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