Year 13: Flipped learning - Bangladesh by Lisa Steciuk https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg How is climate change affecting the lives of people in Bangladesh? en-us 2021-09-20 06:54:55 UTC 2025-10-22 14:43:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Roisin https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249426 - climate refugees are groups of people who, for reasons related to climate change are obligated to leave theri homes to fine more habitable homes.
- Because of the country’s natural susceptibility to extreme weather, the people of Bangladesh have always used migration as a coping strategy.
- conditions intensify under climate change, more people are being driven from their homes and land by more frequent and severe hazards. Sea level rise, storms, cyclones, drought, erosion, landslides, flooding and salinization are already displacing large numbers of people.
- It has been estimated that by 2050, one in every seven people in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. Up to 18 million people may have to move because of sea level rise alone.

]]> 2021-09-21 06:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249426 Lyda https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249578 -people are unable to sustain themselves as the arable farmland has been destroyed by the rising sea levels 
-salinization of crops and seawater contaminating drinking water
-rural to urban migration into Dhaka --> high standards of living in the city that they cannot afford results in an increase in slums
-sometimes men have to leave their family in order to go work in the city so their family can still live in their village 
-transboundary migration into India
-majority of people becoming climate refugee (people who are forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local environment) 

]]> 2021-09-21 06:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249578 Vidip https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249725 There are 2 million residents on about 100 different islands in the Ganges river delta. The islands are just above the water line. 

Groundwater quality has reduced due to contamination from sea water. This is their many resident's only supply of clean water so contamination damages their health and well being.

Many residents have thus been forced to migrate north to the Dhaka slums. This causes slums to become more populous which can be damaging for living standards and the environment.]]> 2021-09-21 06:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756249725 soph https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250119 - more people are being driven from their homes and land by more frequent and severe hazards. 

causes of the displacement of large numbers of people:
Sea level rise
storms 
cyclones
drought
erosion
landslides
flooding 
salinization 

 impacts of climate changes in Bangladesh:
-Summers are becoming hotter 
-monsoon irregular
-heavy rainfall over short period causing water logging and landslides
-very little rainfall in dry period
-increased river flow and inundation during monsoon]]> 2021-09-21 06:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250119 nick https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250360 1. over 8 million people have fled from their provinces due to floods
2. Bangladesh has been flooding for 20 years due to river erosion and rising sea levels
3. over 600,000 houses have been damaged
4. over 4000 schools have been flooded
5. over 100,000 houses have been destroyed
6. predicted that 50 million migrants over the next 25 years will come to Dhaka ]]> 2021-09-21 06:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250360 Sean https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250661 - water sources are becoming saline due to contamination from seawater, meaning that there is less drinking water available and water is not suitable for growing crops, putting strain on food sources

- bangladeshi population has a livelihood and economy reliant on agriculture, meaning that if they can't grow crops, there will be massive issue with the economy and lifestyle

- rising sea levels causing significant land loss, up to 11% by 2050. over a quarter of Bangladesh's population live in coastal areas, meaning they are directly at risk of effects due to sea level rise.

- 18 million people are set to be displaced by 2050 due to sea level rise alone, a lot of them to the capital city of dhaka, which is already overpopulated.]]> 2021-09-21 06:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250661 Plume Plume https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250980 - Climate change is influencing weather patterns, such as more frequent tropical storms, in addition to rising sea levels. This is making the coastal area at the Ganges river delta in Bangladesh (Sundarbuns) vulnerable to erosion, so people in this area are losing their land and no longer able to grow high amounts of crops. 
- In the past, agriculture used to thrive but now people aren't able to. Some people have turned to more salt resistant crops (due to saltwater intrusion), some have turned to shrimp farming while others have migrated to the city
- Those who migrate to Dhaka tend to live in slums and aren't able to escape the cycle of poverty.
- Goverment responses aren't what the people want. They want prevention methods, rather than camps and subsidization after the damage is already done. A tropical storm in 2008 (I think?) destroyed embankments which the government hasn't completely rebuilt yet]]> 2021-09-21 06:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756250980 Angie anbr22 https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756251357 - Heat waves will break new records in a 4°C hotter world
- Sea-level rise, already under way in the Bay of Bengal, could exceed one meter by 2100, displacing an estimated 13 million Bangladeshis
- New rainfall patterns will lead to polarized river flows
- Groundwater stress will increase affecting 20 million people
- Warming of 4°C will severely threaten crops, especially rice grown during annual monsoons. 
- Yields will decrease despite any potentially positive effects of warming]]> 2021-09-21 06:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/list4/40febcxabsfu2cfg/wish/1756251357