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Keywords
Beaches
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Day
Floods
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Men
One person
Outdoors
Poverty
Sea level rise
Sea Level Rise in India
Ajit Patro lives in Sagar island and is one of the many people affected by sea level rise: "Many incidents took place in my life. During the floods, water rises to a height of up to two people, the dikes and everything else comes to the same level. We move to a safe distance and when we see a house, we stay with our children there. After two or three days, we go back to our place, rebuild our home and try again to live there.
By the next year the same incidents take place, in this way our lifestyle has become worst. We do not know what our children are going to eat in the future. What will we eat? How will we spend our time here? Cow and goat carcasses float by during the floods.
It is very sad, where will we go now? If you listen to our stories, you will break out in tears."
Unique identifier:
GP01V1I
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
02/07/2009
Locations:
Asia
,
India
,
Indian Sundarbans
,
West Bengal
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Peter Caton
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Climate Voices in Indian Sundarbans
The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world, a particularly ecologically sensitive area. Scientists estimate that over 70,000 people will be displaced from the Sundarbans due to sea level rise by the year 2030.
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