{"id":62208,"date":"2024-02-28T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/28\/why-bangladesh-is-running-out-of-options-in-the-face-of-extreme-weather"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:00:21","slug":"why-bangladesh-is-running-out-of-options-in-the-face-of-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62208","title":{"rendered":"Why Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The south Asian country is a world leader in climate adaptation, but without more funding the country will struggle to protect its people, a report warns <\/p>\n<p>As far back as she can remember, Shahanaz Ali has been running from cyclones. \u201cMoving constantly from one place to another is exhausting,\u201d says Ali. \u201cNowhere feels like home.\u201d Her family first fled from their house in 1970, when Bangladesh was devastated by Cyclone Bhola \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cyclone-pakistan-bangladesh\/\">one of the deadliest cyclones<\/a> in history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/2e1150b675104f4b90ed4513359030ec\">Up to 500,000 people died<\/a>, including Ali\u2019s grandparents. The largely inadequate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ids.ac.uk\/publications\/the-1970-bhola-cyclone-nationalist-politics-and-the-subsistence-crisis-contract-in-bangladesh\/\">response<\/a> of the ruling Pakistani government towards the cyclone\u2019s Bengali victims in what was then East Pakistan triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2008\/apr\/10\/bangladesh1971\">Bangladesh\u2019s war of independence<\/a> a year later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/28\/why-bangladesh-is-running-out-of-options-in-the-face-of-extreme-weather\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The south Asian country is a world leader in climate adaptation, but without more funding the country will struggle to protect its people, a report warns As far back as she can remember, Shahanaz Ali has been running from cyclones. \u201cMoving constantly f&#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":[327,2331,2084,65,455,313,59,972,61,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-climate-crisis","category-drought","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-rivers","category-south-and-central-asia","category-water","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\/62208","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=62208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62208\/revisions\/62209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}