08/26/2015
Amidst conversations regarding climate change, the usual question that arises is: “who are the biggest contributors to climate change?” In many cases, the most common responses are: the United States, India, and China, in other words, countries with high population densities. Other times, people connect the answer to this question with socioeconomic wealth and assume that countries with money can afford to simply “ship” their problems elsewhere: out of sight, out of mind. What if we were to take the question and reverse it: “who are the most impacted by the effects of climate change?” Would you be able to name a country with the same exact precision and amount of reasoning as was possible for the previous question?
The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC has revealed various long-term implications for Bangladesh and its people from highly probable catastrophic events and impacts due to climate change. The million dollar question then becomes, “why Bangladesh?”
The first album I will be publishing focuses on this question and looks at exposing the reality many often forget or do not know about when conversations of climate change roll around.
