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Is climate change turning coastal countries into water worlds?
Imagine you lived in a world of water. Your home is two-feet under.
You wade through it, cook on it and sleep above it. This is the
reality for hundreds of thousands of people around the world,
coastal populations on the front lines of climate change.
Only weeks before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to discuss
climate change, NOW senior correspondent Maria Hinojosa travels to
Bangladesh to examine some innovative solutions - from
floating schools to rice that can "hold its breath"
underwater - being implemented in a country where entire
communities are inundated by water, battered by cyclones and
flooded from their homes.
The Denmark conference can't come soon enough. Scientists project
global seas will flood 20 percent of Bangladesh by 2030, stranding
some 35 million climate refugees. Some are proposing that
industrial nations who contribute to global warming should open
their doors to displaced Bangladeshis.
Is a coastal catastrophe approaching, and what should we be doing
about it?