They call it 'climate injustice.' Here's how Sufia Khatun of Bangladesh is fighting it
Cyclones come more often and the sea is rising, says this activist. Livelihoods and lives are threatened. Here's what she'd like to tell the nations gathered in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit.
Sufia Khatun says big cyclones used to hit her community of Morrelganj, in southwest Bangladesh, once every quarter-century or so. Now, she says, "we experience a big cyclone [every] two to three years, a smaller cyclone almost every year." The community needs stronger defenses from the assault of wind and water, she says; otherwise the region could become uninhabitable.
What's especially galling is the fact that it's an unnatural disaster. The storms are more intense, and the sea has risen,, a Swiss development organization that works in Morrelganj. "I'm not making the problem, but I'm suffering. [It's] what we call climate injustice."
