Bangladesh Faces Threat from Rising Seas (video)
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A Floating Future (Bangladesh) from stephen sapienza on Vimeo.
With a population of over 150 million people, and much of its land below sea level, Bangladesh is already losing significant amounts of cropland to rising seas related to persistent warming in global average temperatures and polar and glacial ice melt. It is expected that in 10 to 20 years, Bangladesh could lose 20% of its land mass to rising seas or chronic flooding.
This video explores the problem of the collapse of infrastructure and basic services, including the annual destruction of hundreds, if not thousands, of schools across the country. A movement built around mobile boat schools seeks to bring basic education, public health information and adaptive know-how to remote and highly affected areas of the country.
The boat schools are using solar panels to ensure self-reliance and the sustainability of their activities, and to avoid contributing to the global climate trends that are putting Bangladesh in such serious danger of human habitat destruction, resource depletion and mass migration.
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