Sundarbans: The Next Climate Refugees

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOSK3We8IGM&list=PLDamP-pfOskNg5WjzmcTVTzMzmk5ArGJd

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.

It’s happening before our eyes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

An embankment wouldn't stop anything

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Cannot read that teeny, tiny print

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

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

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