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Case studies on how global climate change affects natural disasters like lightning and how they affect the environment and lives in Bangladesh.

Divakar M

Abstract


The monetary insurgency of Humanity has occurred all around the world at the cost of seriously destroying the harmony between world's environs and turning the once magnificent planet to a contaminated and dreadful for all living creatures too. Bangladesh's environment has deteriorated even more rapidly over the past few decades than the rest of the world. A few Problems and Sicknesses because of natural lopsidedness and contamination are on the ascent overall and simultaneously the demise rate is expanding and a measurement shows that the passing rate because of environs contamination on the planet is 16%. As per a World Bank report, Bangladesh has the most elevated loss of life from Natural Issues and contamination in Asia, with 28% of passings every year in Bangladesh because of ecological irregularity. Lightning has as of late become one of the conspicuous reasons for climate related loss of life alongside quantities of sufferings and setbacks across many pieces of the globe. Additionally, lightning causes more than 250 deaths annually in Bangladesh on average. Already, in Bangladesh, Strike from lightning storm was not perceived to be a catastrophic event. Anyway taking into account the tremendous loss of life ongoing years, the Public authority has as of late pronounced it as a Catastrophic event [1] so that assuming anybody bites the dust from a lightning strike, his/her family will be given sure monetary guide thousand takas from the Public authority. The fatal lightning strikes [2] claimed the lives of approximately 2000 people between 2010 and 2019, according to academics and experts from numerous disaster management and climate change forums as well as professionals from mass communication and related authentic sources. The actual data, on the other hand, continues to grow over time.


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