{"id":58914,"date":"2023-10-03T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/03\/only-rich-can-bear-heat-dhaka-bangladesh-battling-extreme-weather-climate"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:00:32","slug":"only-the-rich-can-bear-this-heat-how-dhaka-is-battling-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58914","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only the rich can bear this heat\u2019: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As high temperatures hit the poor hardest, climate change may undo years of development gains, says Asia\u2019s first heat officer <\/p>\n<p>Set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CdgiFFRvBSZ\/\">Nuhash Humayun\u2019s<\/a> Moshari became the first Bangladeshi film to qualify for the Oscars last year. The spine-tingling thriller follows two sisters and their fight for survival, but for the film\u2019s co-producer, Bushra Afreen, the horror fiction felt closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was so much that resonated with my own experiences,\u201d says Afreen, who grew up in Bangladesh, which has long been on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/05\/every-year-it-gets-worse-on-the-frontline-of-the-climate-crisis-in-bangladesh\"> frontline of the climate crisis<\/a>. \u201cOur film was about many things, including a metaphor for how climate change can rob women and girls of their childhood and innocence, and push them into survival mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/03\/only-rich-can-bear-heat-dhaka-bangladesh-battling-extreme-weather-climate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As high temperatures hit the poor hardest, climate change may undo years of development gains, says Asia\u2019s first heat officer Set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Nuhash Humayun\u2019s Moshari became the first Bangladeshi film to qualify for the Oscars last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3673,"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":[826,327,217,218,2331,65,2997,455,59,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-water","category-bangladesh","category-cities","category-cities-and-development","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-heat","category-extreme-weather","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914","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\/3673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58914\/revisions\/58915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}