CLIMATE ACTION SHOW
JUNE 26TH 2023
Produced by Vivien Langford
BANGLA DESH REVISITED IN THE GREAT ASIAN HEATWAVE 2023
This is a repeat of the 2020 radio show taking us to Bangladesh. In the wake of Cyclone Mocha this year and the Asian heatwave which has caused many deaths we revisit these resourceful people to learn about courage.
GUESTS:
Runa Kahn - Founder of Friendship The Mangrove Project is Very Important: It Shows Things Can be Done - Friendship NGO
- Cyclone Mocha makes landfall; Bangladesh spared mass destruction - Friendship NGO
Dr Saleemul Huq - He has published hundreds of scientific as well as popular articles and was recognized as one of the top twenty global influencers on climate change policy in 2019 and top scientist from Bangladesh on climate change science. Recently he has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to combating international climate change.
Bangladesh rocked by power cuts as cyclone hits gas supply | Reuters
‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply (mongabay.com)
Image from Climate Visuals
POULTRY FARMER AFFECTED BY EXTREME HEAT
Poultry farmer Mohammad Korban Ali is depressed. During a heatwave earlier in the summer one third of his chickens died from heat stroke. In August a flood drowned half of the hens that had survived the heat. - It has been a bad summer, he says. The low lying areas of Bangladesh are regularly flooded by the melting glaciers of Himalaya. They also suffer regularly from drought caused by warmer weather. With rising sea levels the farmland gets destroyed by salt water intrusion.
Our research showed that authenticity matters. By far, the strongest finding from our discussion groups was that participants disliked staged photos.
Authentic images were both more convincing and more compellingCountry: Bangladesh01/09/2007Photographer: Orjan Ellingvag / Alamy Stock PhotoAgency: AlamyRights ManagedMandatory Credit: Orjan Ellingvag / Alamy
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