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Shahidul Mullah has not even heard of global warming. He has no electricity or telephone or any of other modern comforts being blamed for global warming. But he lives in coastal Bangladesh, and he and others like him would bear brunt of global warming.

Thanks to climate change, however, Shahidul’s life is being derailed. Serious cyclones are becoming more frequent, says the farmer; this year, there was a severe cyclone even before the monsoon season began. Weather experts have in fact registered an increase in such storms in recent years — from once every 20 years to once every five years. Shahidul is not familiar with this research; his only option is to pray every evening that no storm will roll in the following morning…Indeed, Shahidul and the other inhabitants of southern Bangladesh have no choice but to wait for the coming climate crisis as well. Shahidul Mullah would like for his children to have the opportunity to live elsewhere someday. But their chances aren’t promising.[link]

The biggest problem with the global warming debate is (apart from the science itself) is that those who are in most danger from global warming are in no position to help themselves. Invariably, they are also those who had no role in global warming itself.

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