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The film, "Thirty Million," made its premiere this week at
the United Nations, where British filmmaker Daniel Price said
the danger of the seas rising a full meter by 2100 was a worst
case scenario but needs to be taken seriously.
"If the sea level is rising by one meter, the map of Bangladesh
will be changed," said Hasan Mahmud, a member of the Bangladesh
Parliament, interviewed in the 34-minute film.
Rising waters on the nation's low-lying coast along the Indian
Ocean's Bay of Bengal could displace some 30 million people,
according to studies.
A 2012 report by Unnayan Onneshan, a Bangladesh think-tank, said
the sea level rise hitting one meter by 2100 would affect 25,000
square kilometers, or 18 percent of the country's total land,
and displace an estimated 31.5 million people.
Asked on film where so many people might go, one university
professor replied: "I don't know."
The film, which uses aerial shots of lush forests and sleepy
rivers to illustrate the South Asian country's beauty, can be
seen online at http://thirtymillionfilm.org.
Estimates of global sea levels rising by roughly a meter by 2100
come from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
(Reporting by Sebastien Malo, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. Please
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