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DREAMS

Centre, more than 700,000
Overall, the number Bangladeshis have been

of Bangladeshis displaced on average by natural
disasters. The number spiked
displaced by the during the years with
catastrophic cyclones, like
varied impacts of 2009's Aila, which displaced
millions of people and killed
climate change could more than 200. But even in
relatively calmer years, there is
reach 13.3 million by a rising drumbeat of
displacement as the sea-level
2050, making it the rises, and erosion, salinity
country's intrusion, crop failures, and
repeat inundation make life
number-one driver along the coast untenable.
Overall, the number of
of internal Bangladeshis displaced by the
varied impacts of climate
migration, a World change could reach 13.3
million by 2050, making it the
Bank report states. country's number-one driver of
internal migration, a World
Bank report states.

With rising sea levels, As the rising water level
warmer temperatures and continues to devour homes in
increasingly extreme Bangladesh's coastal areas,
weather conditions, the people have been forced to
world is moving toward a find floating solutions. Year
climate crisis. Climate after year, devastating floods
change poses an existential break through the mud
threat to human civilisation embankments, washing away
and threatens to push homes and crops. Thousands
millions of species to the of families across the region
brink of extinction. The desperately survive in
rising sea level catalysed by makeshift houses on boats
climate change has with limited supply of food
displaced millions from and water. However, they are
their homes. However, the well aware of the
intensity of the climate inevitability. Lack of land to
displacement crisis across cultivate and water to drink
the globe pales in will force them to leave their
comparison to that in the villages one day. Eventually,
face of modern-day they will have to flee to
Bangladesh. Dhaka's congested slums,
According to the Internal living precariously on menial
Displacement Monitoring work.

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