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UK to Help Bangladesh Tackle Climate Change


Environment  (tags: climatechange, world, GoodNews, environment, climate-change )

Cal
- 116 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
he UK Government will help provide raised housing, flood-friendly crops and storm shelters in Bangladesh to protect the country from the impacts of climate change.
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Gillian M. (102)
Tuesday July 14, 2009, 11:25 am
I'm pleased that Bangladesh is receiving help but, regretfully, it is going to be paid for by the British elderly & disabled.
 

Koo J. (91)
Tuesday July 14, 2009, 7:08 pm
The G8 incl UK could probably do more for Bangladesh and other places that feel the effects of climate change by actually cutting their carbon. This is somewhat helpful, but is kind of like the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
 

Judy Cross (77)
Thursday July 16, 2009, 5:17 pm
Unfortunately a good portion of Bangladesh is on a subducting tectonic plate...
THAT MEANS IT'S SINKING.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Plate

I'm awfully glad that the people trapped there by poverty are getting help, but the solutions have to be based on the reality that the land is sinking.....not that the sea is rising because of the climate.
 
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