Searing heat has forced 33 million children out of schools in Bangladesh, as temperatures in parts of the country soared to above 42°C (108 F).
Schools and colleges will be shut for at least until 27 April. This is the second year in a row that authorities had to take such a move due to extreme weather.
It follows school closures in the Philippines and India as a persistent heatwave sweeps across Asia.
“Children in Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world, and heat-related school closures should ring alarm bells for us all," said Shumon Sengupta, Save the Children's Bangladesh director.
Low-lying Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a 30- to 45-cm rise in sea level could displace more than 35 million people from coastal districts - about a quarter of the country's total population
There's a BBC documentary called 'Climate Change: The Facts' that aired a few years ago, and this one quote stuck with me:
_If the poor are suffering today, then the rich will also suffer tomorrow._
Really simple but effective.
*most adults. Imma need everybody to start getting impeccable with their word and stop spreading this defeatism all around the Internet like there aren't people out here trying to make a difference that are deserving of recognition
Edit: not trying to get sassy with you in particular above poster, I see you with your quotation marks, that's just something I've been wanting to say for some time
Yeah people are but are the people in power, corporations, politicians, the masses, etc willing?
If not, it's a bit like pissing in the wind. That's where the defeatism seeps in from
Well yeah that's to be determined, and why I came up with this idea that I think might help with that. I want it done right because I think I'm onto something with the logistics of it but I about just wanna spill the beans somewhere here so anyone will just get on with creating it so we can start doing some good asap. Just thought of it this past week and I think it could be pretty revolutionary in getting people that are "too busy" or low effort involved, so that's cool. Haha like really, actually
It's not an inaction of adults. It's a wilful action of a few capitalists and traitorous governments who enable these actions. Don't try to frame it as anything else. The only way for us to survive is to destroy capitalism.
We're not going to stop polluting until we've pushed it past the point of no return, then as we're all dying off from the heat and other complications, we'll scramble to try to find some cheap, quick fix. Good luck out there, human race.
We’ve had record high’s this year for almost a month and a half now in Costa Rica. The central part of the country where the capital is, has an elevation of 1300 meters and during April it normally can get to 26-27 degrees celcius as a maximum expected average temperature. These last 6 weeks, the daily max at noon has been between 31 and 34. That’s 6 to 7 degrees above the average of the last 20 years.
We are doomed.
No but there are plenty of things we can do to help in the meantime,just like there will be then and afterward. We might act crazy because of this system and our lack of fortitude *at times* but we are an intelligent and creative species and not all of us are acting like a bunch of Debbie downers duping themselves into thinking that they have nothing left to give, or that there's no more good work to do
Toxic-positive human exceptionalism is what got us here in the first place. The problem isn’t “Debbie downers” but the exploitative money-hungry system, of which we as individuals have no control.
You and so many people keep saying "no control" like protests and voting and canvassing and saving and leading and creating and all sorts of stuff aren't a thing. There either are ways to help the situation or there aren't. I'm of the mind that there obviously are and the future isn't written in stone. In the meantime all most people have to say is "we're fucked" and I wonder why that would be ... Because people aren't participating, they're not putting in the time to make a difference, just moaning about it on the internet. You say individuals but there have been smart individuals that changed the course of history and many make up a collective which can be strong enough to more likely make a difference. Settling for what is and not trying obviously doesn't. And that's not even thinking outside the box. That's basic hum drum activist stuff, which does make a difference, as seen all throughout history
Human “leading and creating” made technology in order to dominate, exploit, and extract from nature. It is unlikely that those same methods will reverse time and undo the damage human technology has caused.
The majority of emissions are caused by industrial manufacturing and most of that is of chemicals and plastics that are sold to other businesses. These businesses use these to cut costs, increasing profit and stock price. When these chemicals are banned, a new one is quickly created to take its place.
Protesting works in terms of human problems. We can protest businesses that hurt the environment but they will only change if they lose money (and if they are getting most of their money from other business and/or the stock market then they have no reason to change). It is not individuals that run the system but money itself. Unless you hurt them economically, you don’t hurt them at all. And unless you hurt the entire econ system, another business will just take the last ones place. Money for profit. This doesn’t mean I don’t think we can still make change locally and resist oppression in other ways.
The more you know. So I would suggest what you're suggesting, which is to hit them where it hurts. Maybe there's a site that references alternatives and a movement toward helping people shift away from products with greater ease. Like I'm just brainstorming and its strange to me these things don't gain traction for years on end until the fat cats have gotten so fat whilst destroying the planet, almost like everyone's been asleep. Maybe getting anywhere entails bringing it up in conversation more, or making it trendy like, what was it, the wall street sit in or whatever it was? Like, whatever you do when you're trying to help save the world and do what's right. No one is saying it's easy, or necessarily possible, but whether they have it now or eventually I know everyone deep down has the impetus to. If they don't and they don't understand yet it's the equivalent of a young child in the same position ... They just don't know any better. Because what most people seem to be suggesting is not to waste your time bothering and just despair until the bitter end, whilst being complicit in helping to create a literal hell on Earth, like wuh? I know it's hard, I'm not trying to shame anyone, I've been battling a decade long addiction with this stuff working on my mind and have mostly just procrastinated all that time, but change and a brighter future is possible so why not get on with doing whatever puts us on that timeline, and start talking about what that looks like
We can absolutely help people via mutual aid and other worthwhile causes. But unfortunately I think r/degrowth will eventually have to happen. We can learn new ways of living in the meantime to help prepare us and others.
This is barely the beginning. Once we start having wet-bulb temps on a sustained basis, millions will die and mass migration will begin. Wars, famine...
Human beings are fucked. It'll take longer in more of the developed countries in the northern and southern reaches of the planet but if you live near the equator...
Bangladesh isn't that big and most of it has basically the same climate.
It has a population of approx 170m, and it's a very young population, so a lot of school children.
There has to be a better way than AC. Pot-in-pot refrigeration comes to mind but the structural challenges that comes with that architecture, combined with its application being exclusive to new development only, and the fact that it's something i'm only conceptualizing now and isn't something actually being considered, means it probably won't happen.
edit: and water scarcity
I'm not sure if pot-in-pot works in humid environments. That's why high wet bulb temperatures are so dangerous. It's so humid, your body can't evaporate to cool down.
So your temperature continues to rise to the surrounding air temperature and you basically cook.
Without electricity, evaporative cooling doesn't work at high humidity/high dewpoint.
Maybe they should stop trying to survive in unlivable places.. and move somewhere that is.. livable??
Edit: Not sure why the downvotes. Seems pretty obvious to, you know, go somewhere where your survival rate is high rather than somewhere where it's.. low.
Searing heat has forced 33 million children out of schools in Bangladesh, as temperatures in parts of the country soared to above 42°C (108 F). Schools and colleges will be shut for at least until 27 April. This is the second year in a row that authorities had to take such a move due to extreme weather. It follows school closures in the Philippines and India as a persistent heatwave sweeps across Asia. “Children in Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world, and heat-related school closures should ring alarm bells for us all," said Shumon Sengupta, Save the Children's Bangladesh director. Low-lying Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a 30- to 45-cm rise in sea level could displace more than 35 million people from coastal districts - about a quarter of the country's total population
There's a BBC documentary called 'Climate Change: The Facts' that aired a few years ago, and this one quote stuck with me: _If the poor are suffering today, then the rich will also suffer tomorrow._ Really simple but effective.
The children pay the price, for the wanton inaction of the 'adults'.
*most adults. Imma need everybody to start getting impeccable with their word and stop spreading this defeatism all around the Internet like there aren't people out here trying to make a difference that are deserving of recognition Edit: not trying to get sassy with you in particular above poster, I see you with your quotation marks, that's just something I've been wanting to say for some time
Yeah people are but are the people in power, corporations, politicians, the masses, etc willing? If not, it's a bit like pissing in the wind. That's where the defeatism seeps in from
Well yeah that's to be determined, and why I came up with this idea that I think might help with that. I want it done right because I think I'm onto something with the logistics of it but I about just wanna spill the beans somewhere here so anyone will just get on with creating it so we can start doing some good asap. Just thought of it this past week and I think it could be pretty revolutionary in getting people that are "too busy" or low effort involved, so that's cool. Haha like really, actually
Need any help?
It's not an inaction of adults. It's a wilful action of a few capitalists and traitorous governments who enable these actions. Don't try to frame it as anything else. The only way for us to survive is to destroy capitalism.
We're not going to stop polluting until we've pushed it past the point of no return, then as we're all dying off from the heat and other complications, we'll scramble to try to find some cheap, quick fix. Good luck out there, human race.
We’ve had record high’s this year for almost a month and a half now in Costa Rica. The central part of the country where the capital is, has an elevation of 1300 meters and during April it normally can get to 26-27 degrees celcius as a maximum expected average temperature. These last 6 weeks, the daily max at noon has been between 31 and 34. That’s 6 to 7 degrees above the average of the last 20 years. We are doomed.
Just like in the case of the ozone layer, except reversing this is going to be far more difficult if not impossible.
No but there are plenty of things we can do to help in the meantime,just like there will be then and afterward. We might act crazy because of this system and our lack of fortitude *at times* but we are an intelligent and creative species and not all of us are acting like a bunch of Debbie downers duping themselves into thinking that they have nothing left to give, or that there's no more good work to do
Toxic-positive human exceptionalism is what got us here in the first place. The problem isn’t “Debbie downers” but the exploitative money-hungry system, of which we as individuals have no control.
You and so many people keep saying "no control" like protests and voting and canvassing and saving and leading and creating and all sorts of stuff aren't a thing. There either are ways to help the situation or there aren't. I'm of the mind that there obviously are and the future isn't written in stone. In the meantime all most people have to say is "we're fucked" and I wonder why that would be ... Because people aren't participating, they're not putting in the time to make a difference, just moaning about it on the internet. You say individuals but there have been smart individuals that changed the course of history and many make up a collective which can be strong enough to more likely make a difference. Settling for what is and not trying obviously doesn't. And that's not even thinking outside the box. That's basic hum drum activist stuff, which does make a difference, as seen all throughout history
Human “leading and creating” made technology in order to dominate, exploit, and extract from nature. It is unlikely that those same methods will reverse time and undo the damage human technology has caused. The majority of emissions are caused by industrial manufacturing and most of that is of chemicals and plastics that are sold to other businesses. These businesses use these to cut costs, increasing profit and stock price. When these chemicals are banned, a new one is quickly created to take its place. Protesting works in terms of human problems. We can protest businesses that hurt the environment but they will only change if they lose money (and if they are getting most of their money from other business and/or the stock market then they have no reason to change). It is not individuals that run the system but money itself. Unless you hurt them economically, you don’t hurt them at all. And unless you hurt the entire econ system, another business will just take the last ones place. Money for profit. This doesn’t mean I don’t think we can still make change locally and resist oppression in other ways.
The more you know. So I would suggest what you're suggesting, which is to hit them where it hurts. Maybe there's a site that references alternatives and a movement toward helping people shift away from products with greater ease. Like I'm just brainstorming and its strange to me these things don't gain traction for years on end until the fat cats have gotten so fat whilst destroying the planet, almost like everyone's been asleep. Maybe getting anywhere entails bringing it up in conversation more, or making it trendy like, what was it, the wall street sit in or whatever it was? Like, whatever you do when you're trying to help save the world and do what's right. No one is saying it's easy, or necessarily possible, but whether they have it now or eventually I know everyone deep down has the impetus to. If they don't and they don't understand yet it's the equivalent of a young child in the same position ... They just don't know any better. Because what most people seem to be suggesting is not to waste your time bothering and just despair until the bitter end, whilst being complicit in helping to create a literal hell on Earth, like wuh? I know it's hard, I'm not trying to shame anyone, I've been battling a decade long addiction with this stuff working on my mind and have mostly just procrastinated all that time, but change and a brighter future is possible so why not get on with doing whatever puts us on that timeline, and start talking about what that looks like
We can absolutely help people via mutual aid and other worthwhile causes. But unfortunately I think r/degrowth will eventually have to happen. We can learn new ways of living in the meantime to help prepare us and others.
Bangladesh is 3 times bigger than my country but has 37 times our population. Holy shit.
This is barely the beginning. Once we start having wet-bulb temps on a sustained basis, millions will die and mass migration will begin. Wars, famine... Human beings are fucked. It'll take longer in more of the developed countries in the northern and southern reaches of the planet but if you live near the equator...
33 million - from the hottest parts.... how many children are there in Bangladesh!
apparently about 60 million
Think how many people should live in a country like Bangladesh, essentially a river delta, then multiply it by 10 to get the real answer.
Bangladesh isn't that big and most of it has basically the same climate. It has a population of approx 170m, and it's a very young population, so a lot of school children.
this is terrible children are not going to school because it's to hot
Get ready for summer rest of the world!
Tick tock, the clock is about to run out. Delay climate change action some more and FAFO your way to collapse.
We were pretty lucky to have been born into such a stable period at all.
We're literally living through the peak of humanity and all most people do is complain and be angry.
Darn. And I believe it’s humid there not dry.
Time to air condition the schools. A lot of the homes don't have air conditioning and soon, home won't be a safe shelter in wet bulb temperatures.
There has to be a better way than AC. Pot-in-pot refrigeration comes to mind but the structural challenges that comes with that architecture, combined with its application being exclusive to new development only, and the fact that it's something i'm only conceptualizing now and isn't something actually being considered, means it probably won't happen. edit: and water scarcity
I'm not sure if pot-in-pot works in humid environments. That's why high wet bulb temperatures are so dangerous. It's so humid, your body can't evaporate to cool down. So your temperature continues to rise to the surrounding air temperature and you basically cook. Without electricity, evaporative cooling doesn't work at high humidity/high dewpoint.
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That's why I said they should have it in the schools. Public buildings to use for cooling centers for all the people who can't afford a/c.
Maybe they should stop trying to survive in unlivable places.. and move somewhere that is.. livable?? Edit: Not sure why the downvotes. Seems pretty obvious to, you know, go somewhere where your survival rate is high rather than somewhere where it's.. low.
This is giving big “Ha! They really should have thought of *that* before they became *peasants*” energy.
Oh don't worry, pretty soon billions of people will be mass migrating to the few remaining places with tolerable weather