We all know that some countries are already being being affected by climate change. Sceptics may scoff, but as this report on CommonDreams so graphically explains, the effects of climate change and global warming can be serious......deadly in fact!
"To document the drastic effects of global warming produced by the world's richest people on the world's poorest people, British punk artist Jamie Hewlett went with Oxfam members to Bangladesh - which is 80% floodplain, makes up 10% of south Asia but sees 90% of its water pass through to the sea. Hewlett drew and photographed the island flood villages of Char Atra, where people, mostly women, are learning to survive ever-worse monsoons and floods for months at a time. Pictures and more here. Hewlett describes kids drawing houses washed away and swimming to school with books on their heads. We in the West cannot know what it's like, he says, but he's trying.
"The flood's their bogeyman. But they deal with it. It's part of their lives. How would we react if we knew you could lose a child every time you open the front door?"
The wake-up call is there - and real!
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