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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Bhola Island, Bangladesh (from Al Jazeera)



From the video:  "Much of their crops are drowning in sea water.  As climate change intensifies, coastal areas will be innundated. Therefore, we will lose land. Under business as usual conditions, up to 30 % of agricultrual productivity will be lost in South Asia." 

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/2009101011512667509.html
With a sense of impending doom, Bangladeshis are adamant that something must be done to reverse the climate change which threatens to swallow the country's islands and shoreline, irrevocably changing the lives of the millions who have their homes there.
Why do we in North America live in climate change denial?

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