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Is "Global Warming" used to cover-up the environmental costs of building "clean" hydroelectric dams?
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.1
... or so says the orthodoxy. But are they really climate refugees? ...
This is a reproduction of the cached web page of the article of the World Commission on Dams. The link to this article is now dead, although it is amply quoted in the literature.
Possibly the first ever "environmental refugees in this part of the world were caused by a huge hydroelectric project in Chittagong Hill Tracts, south east of Bangladesh (Samad, 12 November 1994, Environmental refugees of CHT,Page-2). The socio-economic conditions of a large section of the hill people were affected by the construction of the hydro project. ....
In the aid-game of "Green Revolution" to produce more food and industrialisation, the United States government funded a hydro project damming the Karnaphuli river crisscrossing from northeast India.
United Nation's ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
World Commission on Dams (website unchanged since 2001... probably as a result of reattribution of funds to global warming — after all, who cares about local floodings when global warming is going to flood all of us?)
Bhola Island is in front the Chittagong district.
- 1see Wikipedia, Environmental migrant
