India wants NO 'climate refugees"---& is building border fence (Bangladesh.)

[rodeodance]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x813200

........With so many huge rivers discharging into the ocean, the country couldn't build dikes to hold back the sea even if it had the money, Rahman said. And though it has created virtually none of the pollution driving global warming, it is unlikely to receive the international assistance it needs to adapt to conditions created by others.

What that might mean for big polluting nations such as the United States, China and India is that "for every hundred thousand tons of carbon you emit, you have to take a Bangladeshi family," Rahman said, only half joking. India already is building a fence along its border with Bangladesh.

The extent of Bangladesh's coming problem is evident in Antarpara, a village stuck between the Jamuna and Bangali rivers five hours northwest of Dhaka, the capital. In it and other low-lying villages nearby, more than half of the 3,300 families have lost their land to worsening river erosion. Some have moved their homes a dozen times and are running out of places to flee.

Antarpara's village head, who once owned 700 acres, is now penniless. The village's school has had to close for two to three months each time the community flees the intruding Jamuna. In the past year, the river has marched 300 feet toward the village's latest temporary homes on government land, and now the closest shack is just 30 feet from the roiling waters. Visitors are warned not to venture near the edge.

[xultar]

1. I wonder where they got the fence idea from. Thanks Lilboots.

[LoZoccolo]

2. Yet they'll help themselves to our jobs.

Nice.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. well if you want to keep your jobs, maybe you should elect better politicians

or insist that your business leaders have some ethics

india is already poor and broke. i dont see how the indian gov't can handle any more poverty.

[rodeodance]

4. its a good artcile --worth the read. Bang..as symptom of wider global problem.

[crikkett]

5. The world will be a better place when people realize

that we only damage ourselves and our planet with each and every fence that we use to cut ourselves off from each other.

From the Great Wall of China to my backyard, may all the fences come down.

[Solon]

6. If India won't step up to the plate, then the United States should...

We should accept the refugees, grant them an equivalent land area to what they will lose, somewhere around 100,000 square miles, so give them Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, and give them a new country, call it "New Bangladesh" or something.

[BonnieJW]

7. You forgot Alabama.

[Solon]

8. Ah, what the hell, give them Alabama too...

Sounds like a good idea to me! :)