UNREPORTED WORLD: Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
How does a country’s population survive climate change as their homes, land and roads all disappear under water? This week’s Unreported World travels to Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely populated countries on Earth and on the front line of climate change. Ten million people have been made homeless by recent flooding and 20 per cent of the country could disappear over the next century. Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Andy Wells visit some of the areas worst hit by last November’s cyclone.
Friday 7 March 2008
7:35pm, Channel 4
August 18th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I think it’s a deliberate propaganda (BBC’s ‘Drowning Bangladesh’) against Bangladesh to plunder our natural resources. Bangladesh is one of the richest nations on earth if it’s natural resources are tapped properly. For millions of years all of Himalayas trees and other natural resources have flowed downstream into the Bay of Bengal delta. The delta actually has huge oil and gas reserves. As in Georgia to siphon off Azerbaijan’s oil the MNCs have eyed Bangladesh’s huge reserves for exploitation. As a first step they already have installed an undemocratic unelected illegitimate government to plunder Bangladesh’s resources. They are signing PSCs as dictated by them through draconian ordinances of the current puppet government.
I am sure the next constitutional government will scrap all these anti-Bangladesh agreements. For a well-meaning, constitutional, elected nationalist government it shouldn’t take more than 10 years to transform Bangladesh