{"id":46264,"date":"2022-07-11T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/10\/bangladesh-is-paying-a-high-price-for-developed-worlds-carbon-emissions"},"modified":"2022-07-11T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:20:11","slug":"bangladesh-is-paying-a-high-price-for-developed-worlds-carbon-emissions-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46264","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh is paying a high price for developed world\u2019s carbon emissions | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the poorest countries is experiencing disastrous consequences because of the developed world\u2019s use of fossil fuels, says <strong>Prof Steve Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a moving and disturbing story (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/05\/every-year-it-gets-worse-on-the-frontline-of-the-climate-crisis-in-bangladesh\" title=\"\">\u2018Every year it gets worse\u2019: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, 5 July<\/a>) \u2013 a wake-up call to all of us about the direct environmental and indirect social and political consequences of our (the developed world\u2019s) dependency on fossil fuels. One of the world\u2019s poorest countries, with a population of around 160 million, cannot be held responsible for the CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions that are the cause of the disastrous climate change impacts it is experiencing. Bangladesh accounts for only 0.3% of the world\u2019s carbon emissions, so not much room for cuts there.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to Bangladesh in 2004, I witnessed another impact of climate crisis \u2013 flash floods from increased melt in the Himalayas that engulfed the rice crop in the Sunamganj district only a week or two before the harvest. During a boat journey to assess the effect on schools and families in Sulla, it appeared that fishers were hard at work \u2013 but no, they were salvaging their rice crop from beneath the flood water. The \u201crotten rice\u201d harvest provided only about 20% of the potential yield. This happened before the disastrous monsoon floods that year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/10\/bangladesh-is-paying-a-high-price-for-developed-worlds-carbon-emissions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the poorest countries is experiencing disastrous consequences because of the developed world\u2019s use of fossil fuels, says Prof Steve MartinThis is a moving and disturbing story (\u2018Every year it gets worse\u2019: on the frontline of the climate crisis i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2331,65,313,564,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-flooding","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46265,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264\/revisions\/46265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}