BLACK WATER

By 2050, Bangladesh will have approximately 220 million inhabitants, and a large part of its territory will be permanently submerged. This could result in the forced displacement of 10 to 30 million people from the country’s southern coastline, making many Bangladeshis part of “climate migration” – a global phenomenon projected to affect 250 million people worldwide by mid-century.

On a planetary scale, we are talking about the largest mass migration in human history. How long will Dhaka withstand the arrival of so many people? Where will all these people go when the cities collapse? Who will take them in? We are sitting on a big time bomb.