The New Nation - Internet Edition

While Al Gore, the former Vice President of America accepted the Nobel Prize this year, Bangladesh in the mean while corresponded with all the scientific and socio-economic predictions of 'climate change’. Devastation has battered lives and habitat in Bangladesh. It’s not the first time Bangladeshis have had to deal with the consequences of climatic variability but as the temperature of the earth continues to rise, parallel runs frequent disasters and so does the vulnerability of people.

Bangladesh is prone to droughts, floods and cyclone, all of which are weather-related disasters that straightaway threatens the majority of people who live below the poverty line and the risk of increase in serious diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever and polio together with an acute shortage of drinking water are just some of the few things that are in store in the Pandora’s box.

The weather is changing in many aspects and as we bid farewell to 2007, an inevitable question looms - What will happen to us?

Lest we forget!

Photos : Munem Wasif / DrikNEWS , Munir uz Zaman / DrikNEWS , Tanvir Ahmed / DrikNEWS

Text: Arpan Shrestha / DrikNEWS