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Bangla Desh is drowning

Se Politikens fotograf Jonathan Bjerg Møller fantastiske billeder fra Bangladesh. Et land, der lider under klimaforandringerne.

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Foto: JONATHAN BJERG MØLLER

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Nature’s laboratory

160 million people live in Bangladesh. Extreme poverty and cheap labour have made the country one of the world?s major clothes producers. The large population means that Bangladesh can compete with countries such as China, India and Sri Lanka. But overpopulation also means that the country is extremely vulnerable when natural catastrophes hit.

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Aila’s victims

Cyclone Aila wreaked havoc in Bangladesh in May this year. Thousands lost their homes and there is still a need for food, water and aid. And until the many broken dykes have been fixed, no-one can go back home.

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The village without men

Nilufa Jasmin Ruma lives on a sandy island in the middle of the Brahmaputra River. 95 percent of the islanders are women. Their men have to travel 500 kilometres to get work to support their families.

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The slum a lawyer owns

Bagladeshis have traditionally lived in the country, but povertyh and climate change have forced them to the cities and particularly to the capital Dhaka. Here, they often end up in one of the city?s 5,000 slums areas. Some say that in 15 years, half of Dhaka?s population will be living in slums.

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Foto: JONATHAN BJERG MØLLER

The town that disappeared

Kuziartek was once a large village with rice paddies, schools, tea houses and mosques. Now it?s just an expanse of mud in the middle of the Bay of Bengal. The rest has been washed away by the sea. There are only seven families left who live on the remains of an old dyke and are too poor to move away.

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Why Bangladesh is drowning

A short graphical presentation of Bangladesh

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BANGLADESH IS DROWNING


Bangla Desh is a country hard hit by the whims of a changing climate. See the narrated series of pictures taken by Politiken’s photographer Jonathan Bjerg Møller.

Chapter 1: Nature’s laboratory
Chapter 2: Cyclone Aila’s victims
Chapter 3: The island without men
Chapter 4: The slum a lawyer owns
Chapter 5: The town that disappeared
Chapter 6: The story of Bangla Desh


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