BANGLADESH’S KUTUBDIA ISLAND LOSING BATTLE TO STEM CLIMATE TIDE

Shukdev Das: “I live in kutubdia. I lost my house due to the rising sea water. We are certain that in the near future, our island will also be under water. We don’t know where we shall live

Although around 100,000 people still reside on Kutubdia, few have any illusions they are living on borrowed time, with Coast – a Bangladeshi NGO – warning the whole island could disappear underwater within 50 years.

Tens of thousands have already left for good, mainly heading to the teeming capital Dhaka or a slum area of Cox’s Bazaar, a resort town some 80 kilometers (50 miles) away…....