Bangladesh faces difficult future from climate change

Bangladesh may be facing a difficult future because of climate change.

According to The Star website, climate change will cause a migration unlike anything ever seen. It will leave parts of Asia and Africa uninhabitable.

Bangladesh is expected to absorb the hardest blow. Rising sea levels from melting glaciers could flood seventeen per cent of the country. It is also expected to create twenty to third million refugees and people leave Bangladesh to search for jobs and safety.

The explanation given, is that Bangladesh is a flat surfaced countries six metres above sea level and the majority of Bengalis live in a delta region surrounded by three rivers. The country also faces more extreme weather pattern with tornadoes and cyclones occurring on a more frequent basis.

Climate change is expected to cause a migration of as many as two-hundred fifty million people from parts of Africa and Asia. Small islands in the Pacific Ocean will disappear, as early as the end of the century.

Flickr Photo by: Oxfam GB in Asia