# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvAg06jxsF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11685390-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-22T20:30:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by amivitale / Today is World Water Day, a day to contemplate the complex relationship humanity has with this life-giving substance. In Bangladesh, scientists predict that climate change could lead to a rise in sea levels that would flood at least 17 percent of Bangladesh and create more than 13 million refugees by 2050. Monsoon rains in the region are becoming more concentrated in a shorter period, causing a cruel combination of more extreme floods and longer periods of drought. In the capital of Dhaka, the impact is already being felt, with some half a million migrants arriving in the city each year. These “climate change refugees” are pouring mostly into squalid slums and the biggest reason for moving is environmental degradation.

The situation is at once ironic and unjust. The poorest are the most affected by climate change but they are the least responsible for it. Whether it becomes one of the great human tragedies of our time, or a model for the future depends on these choices; what happens next is in our hands.

Learn more by following amivitale and friendshipngo. thephotosociety photography.for.good #water #worldwaterday #conservation #globalwarming #sealevelrise

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sealevelrise, worldwaterday, water, globalwarming, conservation

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