In “The Unfolding Tragedy of Climate Change in Bangladesh” (published on the Scientific American website) Robert Glennon writes:“A three-foot rise in sea level would submerge almost 20% of the entire country and displace more than 30 million people. The infrastructure required for 20 industrial towns will probably require the government to invest about $20 billion. Burning fossil fuels is what caused the crisis of rising sea levels, so it makes sense that fossil fuels should be taxed to raise money for adaptation to rising sea levels. Creating industrial cities is not just a matter of building infrastructure; private capital will be required to set up factories in the new cities. Once industrial cities have been created, and foreign capital has been attracted to Bangladesh to finance new factories, Bangladeshis who lose their land to rising sea levels will naturally move to the new industrial cities to find employment.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 18, 2017 07:21 UTC