which will spark first millions of people migrating to survive with their families and then Billions will be on the move to survive with their families. Most people on foot will be somewhere between 5 and 55 or 60 years of age because many older people simply cannot walk hundreds or thousands of miles to safety. Of course we are talking about the poorest of people who often cannot afford a bus ticket or a train ticket and have to escape the heat on foot or boat or anyway they can.
Why would they risk everything to leave their homelands? Because they know if they don't try some or all of their families are going to die caused by heat and other related causes like Dengue Fever mosquitos etc. like they are dealing with now in Bangladesh. Also, in Bangladesh the seas rising is a very serious thing too because most of Bangladesh is under about 10 feet in elevation or so. I was wrong the average is about 33 feet above sea level as an average. But, what this means in real terms is that most of Bangladesh (just like Florida) will be underwater by 2100 to 2200.
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Although altitudes up to 105 metres (344 ft) above sea level occur in the northern part of the plain, most elevations are less than 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level; elevations decrease in the coastal south, where the terrain is generally at sea level.
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