Climate change
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Our world has a big challenge ahead, which is climate change. The world is going to be affected due to climate change and global warming. Due to climate change sea levels will rise, and some countries like Bangladesh and the Maldives are going to get flooded. Also the number of natural disasters will rise. Climate change and global warming are caused by human activities like burning fossil fuel and deforestation. Climate change will be a disaster to human kind. There will be 150 million climate refugees because of climate change and environmental disasters. Lots of people are going to suffer and die. In 1995, half of Bhola Island in Bangladesh became permanently flooded, leaving 500,000 people homeless. The Bhola Islanders have been described as some of the world's first climate refugees. In 2007, a Bangladeshi scientist stated: "We're already seeing hundreds of thousands of climate refugees moving into slums in Dhaka." These refugees were fleeing flooded coastal areas. That's why, now we are watching the beginning of the new disaster age. Do people care? The media now has a very big job of alerting the general people about this.
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