Bangladesh The Coming Storm
Bangladesh The Coming Storm
1. What does Bangladesh look like today?
Bangladesh looks like half of the human population crammed into a space the size of Louisiana. In the capital of Dhaka, it is so crowded and filled with homeless people on every corner. Among the 15 million people stuck in traffic among the crowded roads, lies an army of Bengali beggers. Bengali beggers sell vegetables, popcorn, and trinkets. Even in the beauty country side filled with lush grass and flowers, there is people wall-to-wall covering the area completely.
2. Explain why, according to the 2 converging projections, the population of Bangladesh is expected to reach 220 million by 2050?
The nation is currently filled with 164 million people, and is expected to turn into 220 million by 2050, partly under water. According to two converging projections. Population growth that, despite a sharp decline in fertility, will continue to produce millions more Bangladeshis in the coming decades, and a possible multifoot rise in sea level by 2100 as a result of climate change. Such a scenario could mean that 10 to 30 million people along the southern coast would be displaced, forcing Bangladeshis to crowd even closer together or else flee the country as climate refugees—a group predicted to swell to some 250 million worldwide by the middle of the century, many from poor, low-lying countries.
3. Who is Major general muniruzzaman and what does he see happening in the future?
Major General Muniruzzaman is a retired army officer who presides over the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in Dhaka. He sees the largest mass migration happening in world history. He predicts by 2050 the world will be lacking natural resources, limited land and government. He cites a recent war game run by the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., which forecast the geopolitical chaos that such a mass migration of Bangladeshis might cause in South Asia. In that exercise millions of refugees fled
1. What does Bangladesh look like today?
Bangladesh looks like half of the human population crammed into a space the size of Louisiana. In the capital of Dhaka, it is so crowded and filled with homeless people on every corner. Among the 15 million people stuck in traffic among the crowded roads, lies an army of Bengali beggers. Bengali beggers sell vegetables, popcorn, and trinkets. Even in the beauty country side filled with lush grass and flowers, there is people wall-to-wall covering the area completely.
2. Explain why, according to the 2 converging projections, the population of Bangladesh is expected to reach 220 million by 2050?
The nation is currently filled with 164 million people, and is expected to turn into 220 million by 2050, partly under water. According to two converging projections. Population growth that, despite a sharp decline in fertility, will continue to produce millions more Bangladeshis in the coming decades, and a possible multifoot rise in sea level by 2100 as a result of climate change. Such a scenario could mean that 10 to 30 million people along the southern coast would be displaced, forcing Bangladeshis to crowd even closer together or else flee the country as climate refugees—a group predicted to swell to some 250 million worldwide by the middle of the century, many from poor, low-lying countries.
3. Who is Major general muniruzzaman and what does he see happening in the future?
Major General Muniruzzaman is a retired army officer who presides over the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in Dhaka. He sees the largest mass migration happening in world history. He predicts by 2050 the world will be lacking natural resources, limited land and government. He cites a recent war game run by the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., which forecast the geopolitical chaos that such a mass migration of Bangladeshis might cause in South Asia. In that exercise millions of refugees fled