Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling

Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling

Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling

This documentary by Daniel Price and Adrien Taylor explores the adverse impact of climate change on Bangladesh' landscape, food security and the country's 160 million people
one-third the size of New York City and accommodates almost same number of people (80 million). With overwhelming density of population and unplanned urbanisation over the past 25 years, the city has made itself more vulnerable than ever.
A common refrain in the documentary is a realisation that climate-vulnerable Bangladesh is suffering because of what rest of the world is doing. Unlike the West, it doesn’t have the time to look at the world tomorrow. “This is not fair,” says Monica Jahan Bose, an environmental lawyer. “Bangladeshis did so little to add to the stock of carbon in the atmosphere,” she says.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently concluded that the warming of climate systems is ‘unequivocal’. For a country whose landscape is constantly changing with the ebb and flow of the rivers, glacial melt in the Himalayas adds to the despair, as observed by Saber H. Chowdhury, president of Inter-Parliamentary Union. The film also talks about the initiatives of the United Nations Development Programme starting from planting mangrove forests along the coastal regions to teaching locals to feed themselves in a more climate-resilient way.
One can feel the enormity of the situation by looking at instances of land subsidence and resilience of the people who have built their homes, seen them washed away and rebuilt them again—20 or 30 times in their lifetime. Still, Bangladeshis don’t want to see themselves as victims. As Bose says, “They are fighters, poets and singers. They don’t want to give up their land. They want to stay and fight.” For them, there’s no plan B, no planet B.

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