Sundarbans: The Next Climate Refugees

“We were so terrified with the water coming into the house and the sound of the storm. In front of my eyes, the walls of our house collapsed.” That’s Geeta Maiti, a resident of Mousuni Island, part of the Indian Sundarbans-a 4,000 square-mile World Heritage site on the Bay of Bengal, shared by India and Bangladesh. There, a rich ecosystem supports the world’s largest mangrove forest and several hundred animal species, including the endangered Bengal tiger. The region is home to approximately 13 million people. It is one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the world. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
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[@TheAtlantic]

Mousuni is not the only place that is losing ground to rising sea levels. Check out our story on Tangier Island, home of some of the first climate refugees in the U.S: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moC2fGaNmp18fa8

[@BanBiofuels]

There is no unusual, unnatural, man-made sea level rise, and even the natural slow rise in sea level that has been going on since the end of the last ice age is slowing. You have been fooled by climate change cultists who blame every problem in the world on carbon, the essential substance all life is made from. This is deadly schizophrenia that has nothing to do with real science. NASA, NOAA, and the IPCC have all been caught faking data to prove an incorrect theory that politicians from Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama have tried to promote. Please see *Video Tutorial Cures Climate Hysteria* at renewable.50webs.com/Video-Tutorial.html

[@Pcarnevaaa]

@@BanBiofuels Kiribati and those islands in the pacific... tsk tsk we gonna have to let them drown hahahhahahahahah

[@fahimuddin8782]

About 17 years ago, I had a teacher who lived on an island off the coast of Bangladesh, called Hatia. He took some of us on a trip to visit his home on the island and showed us the effects of the rising sea. The land his ancestor had passed on to him and where they had lived for centuries had at that time been right on the coast of the island. He told us it used to be further inland when he was a child and gradually it drew closer and closer. The land it self was extremely beautiful. I was the first time I had seen a mustard farm. By 2007, it was gone. The land that he called his own, left by his father and his father before him, the land that held the graves of his parent and ancestors, his childhood memories, all gone.He can never go back. Afterwards he moved to the mainland, bought himself a property and settled with his wife and is now a close family friend.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

It’s happening before our eyes.

[@johnb.9806]

Bangladesh is prone to flooding due to being situated on the Ganges Delta and the many distributaries flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Coastal flooding, combined with the bursting of river banks is common, and severely affects the landscape and society of Bangladesh. 80% of Bangladesh is floodplain,[1] and it has an extensive sea coastline,[2] rendering the nation very much at risk of periodic widespread damage.

[@vsalukir7019]

Nothing is happening before your eyes. The only thing you see is the fiction that you read in the media. Sea level has risen 3 inches in the last 100 years. Before that it rose 350 feet since the last ice age.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

@@vsalukir7019 - Well, I follow actual scientists...not pseudo scientists paid by the fossil fuel industry . Think what you want, the arctic is melting and the permafrost in Greenland is melting . I suppose that is all ok with you "because its happened before" .

[@vsalukir7019]

Environmental Coffeehouse So, show me the link to your "actual scientist" that says we've had more than 3 inches of sea level rise in the last 100 years. cairnsnews.org/2016/12/30/scary-sea-level-rise-on-sydney-harbour/

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

@@vsalukir7019 coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/fld/1/-8927804.463509956/2969713.5460028877/12/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion

[@gigglysamentz2021]

Good story which makes me realise that there are many more costs to climate change than we can imagine...

[@carolinebennett5615]

Happening in the UK too. There’s a village in north wales that doesn’t have long left.

[@Pcarnevaaa]

EXCITING! THEY CAN DROWN AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHH

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

This is class conflict. This is what it looks like when the interests of one class are diametrically opposed to the interests of another.

[@Igloodawg]

*reads Karl Marx* "EVERYTHING IS CLASS CONFLICT, EVEN THE OCEAN"

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

@@Igloodawg ^This, but unironically.

[@pranavkrishnan3239]

They are quite a few of these islands near the Sunderbans which have already sunk completely. Bangladesh is one country outside of island nations that is going to be heavily affected by rising sea levels. Potential refugee crises for India from q sinking Bangladesh.

[@maretranquillity]

You should always have subtitles for all the speech in your programs. With background noise and foreign names and places coupled with many people speaking with accents it is very difficult for many of us to understand.

[@Nick-pd2yo]

An embankment wouldn't stop anything

[@BelieveNoGod]

Where are islands get their fresh water ? Are there rivers flowing nearby ? Do they get it by boat or air ? Do they get it by drilling into the ground ? If it's the latter one. The sea isn't rising, the land is sinking.

[@mdafeef2270]

It's the gangetic delta smartass so yeah there is freswater

[@Munden]

There's no hope for places like this. If you can't afford to keep fixing it you'd better start growing gills or plan on moving. No way in hell we're able to fix this mess.

[@desiredditor]

sundar bans is really difficult ot work with its a delta and storms are common and there are boats but their only refuge is going int o the cities and proper main land

[@katz57]

This is very sad, but what makes it worst is that all of us are causing this and we can change it. We must get others to understand

[@CrakenFlux]

... sure. even if they understood, what would they do? positive feedback loops now going which nothing will reverse. no matter what, it is going to happen.

[@theaveragesoldier1029]

how shocked the world is to discover a flood plain flooded.

[@libacus4741]

What’s upsetting is that I got a commercial to “sign trumps birthday card” before this video, that man who does nothing while our world is dying and people are suffering

[@typedef_]

What do you want him to do you idiot ? Why don't you start doing something yourself instead of complaining on KZbin ?

[@Pcarnevaaa]

@@magnificentgoldenbeast6099 i agree india supports the smell of the poop coming from the ganga and the yes yes yes man from vice.

[@CrakenFlux]

there is absolutely nothing can be done now. even if every single human would vanish in thin air right now, those processes are positive feedback loops and will continue till the end of time, at least our time, our epoch. we sure did well for all the rest of the species, didn't we? .

[@teamthoth]

Many Micronesian islands are going through the same thing. I get extremely irritated by climate change deniers.

[@Recken1]

I know of no one that denies climate change. I know of no one that denies humans even affect it. I know of plenty that disagree that we can reverse it. I believe, for the most part, it's natural. Humans have not had that much of an effect on climate change. The USA has a huge increase in population over the past 30-40 years, yet our pollution levels remain the same. China and India's have increased on an exponential level. If we get the USA to net zero emissions it will not help at all if other countries continue at the same levels. We all must do our part. You have people like AOC spouting how bad it is and that she wants this green new deal at the cost of $100T, but she won't take the train. Do as I say not as I do. That is not the way to get your point across.

[@lazaruslaser6560]

@@Recken1 Humans are to blame for climate change. That's a scientific fact. The only groups debating this are lobbyists and the politicians they have bought. Do you ever wonder why this is such a contested issue, even though it's literally a fact? It's because huge (heavy pollution causing) industries are at stake, and they want to defend their interests over the health of the planet (and the people in this video). I just urge you to consider why a scientific fact has become so politicized. We don't politicize the fact that grass grows or that the sun rises in the morning.

[@DesiBookLover]

And we in India are not ready to handle the repercussions, politically or economically. Climate Immigration from Sundarbans and Bangladesh is already making the situation untenable. This means destabilization in not just India but all the world because of disruption in trade, illegal immigration, and violence.

[@artman7780]

Crazy Mamta Banerjee is already inviting all illegals and giving them citizenship’s and benefits.

[@CrakenFlux]

BIRTH CONTROL,, MANDATORY,NOW. i know they murdered indira over this, but maybe they might see the light this time.

[@erikadowdy686]

Cannot read that teeny, tiny print

[@lefixdunet5439]

My heart bleeds for you people 😢 so sorry our greediness has fucked you up so bad 😔

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Can they build stone pilings for their buildings and try another type of farming, such as air planting?

[@CrakenFlux]

WHY CAN T I SHARE THIS TO SPANISH SPEAKING OR PORTUGUESE SPEAKING PEOPLE...BRING BACK THE TRANSLATIONS!

[@Pcarnevaaa]

shhhhh you cannot let the spanish speaking people know about climate change! We need to kill these islands!

[@CrakenFlux]

@@Pcarnevaaa These guys are indonesian... :) I think we better let everyone know about what is going on, although i certainly have zero hope. 5 or 6 billion would have to vanish in thin air for a significant drop in greenhouse gases , and the chinese and the developing world, like africa, are now the biggest polluters. just imagine when they get on par with the first world.. there will be no first world!! arggg.. cheated again

[@subhashisnag6090]

These people appear to be illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India. Their dialect is distinctly different from Indian Bengalis.

[@carmichael2359]

So sad and horrible

[@philo3838]

I'm guessing the dislikes on this video are from Trump supporters

[@robertminick2476]

How can the sea level be 3 times higher in one place? Islands can rise and islands can sink. This is the more compelling explanation.

[@ncooty]

@Robert Minick: Google it and learn rather than assuming your intuitions are correct. Many intuitions are wrong.

[@josiptumapa]

If only I could, I’d transport ramjan and his family to the Philippines. God I need a good tailor in my design team. 😂 and Indians are the best tailors

[@modelp9068]

It is serious. Also, second

[@hmmm9658]

as long as they dont come to europe

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

They won't. It's not as easy for them since they're not in the Mediterranean. Plus, Indians seem determined to make their country better, rather than running to the west. Every year, I hear about initiatives that will make life better there. Indians love living in India.

[@sanjayvaidya4925]

Then stop polluting the planet numbnuts. 6% of the global population producing 65% of the waste.

[@NZAnimeManga]

Who cares. Keep em out.

[@ma4lps]

You do realise that the same will happen to any country having a costline right ?

[@NZAnimeManga]

@Jack Richardson cool, let me know when you open your house up to homeless and strangers. Hypocrite. We're the same, I just don't virtue signal.

[@bluedust7951]

NZAnimeManga youre an idiot the usa is going to experience the same thing if we do not do nothing

[@teamthoth]

NZAnimeManga keep em out of where? Why wouldn’t they move another part of India as it is super big? Also, are you in New Zealand and are you Maori?

[@visorij3374]

bluedust America will never fully flood tho yea we might lose some coast but we still have a shit ton of land left.

[@nuggets0717]

I know I’m not the only one cringing at the pronunciation of Sundorbans 🇧🇩