The instructions for the first 1/3 of the paper is this: "A. You will go to standard online references such as the United Nations Economic and Social
Development site (http://www.un.org/esa/) and the Central Intelligence Agency’s World
Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/) to gather background
information on the economy and social structure of this country. (approx. 1/3 of the paper) "
My research paper is titled "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People". The first part of my paper isn’t quite 1/3 of the paper, I’d be happy with just one page. I don’t know what else to add with the above requirememnts for this first part to make it longer. Here’s what I have so far:
"Bangladesh is situated in Southern Asia between Burma and India. It is a relatively young country who gained independence from West Pakistan in 1971 and its people are still struggling to build the country. It borders the Bay of Bengal and is on deltas of many large rivers. It is tropical with a normal 30-70% of the country flooded each year during the monsoon season. The population is greatly at risk from natural disasters as the country is densely populated with a estimated 156 million people in 144,000 sq km. Comparatively, the country is a little smaller than Iowa. This high population density increases the people’s vulnerability to climate change because the opportunity for migration within Bangladesh is limited. Since much of the population lives in poverty, the average life expectancy is 60 years. They face droughts, cyclones, waterborne diseases, deforestation, coastal erosion, back water effect, malaria, rabies and avian influenza. Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to the affects of global climate change because it is mostly flat and low-lying and has low economic development. Its economy depends on agriculture and natural resources that are greatly put at risk by natural disasters. 45% of the population is estimated to be below the poverty line and that percentage will only increase as flooding and severe weather continue to threaten the country’s major industries. The farming community produces tea, sugar, rice, potatoes, tobacco, spices and fruit. Many farming family’s livelihoods are at risk and many are all ready suffering."
Right now I’m just worried about content, not grammar or citations yet. I’d appreciate it if someone could give me a few ideas on how to lengthen this first part. Thanks in advance!!!! 
I have answered a similar question a while ago, and I would like to repeat the same here for the benefit of other users who may answer. I am also starring this question so that my Contacts may be able to contribute, if they can manage time.
Hi I’m from Bangladesh. I wish I could have contributed in your research paper on "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People".
All I can recall is that there were clearly ‘felt’ seasons in the past, like Winter (Dec-Feb), Summer (Mar-May), Monsoon (Jun-Sep) and Autumn (Oct-Nov). In these days of post-climate times the seasons seem to have overlapped a bit. We can see raining during winter times and also floods occurring at ‘odd-times’ or at regular basis, instead of some decade long spacings (frequency) of the past.
I got the following from Internet search:
1. In recent times climate change is resulting in gradual sea level rise, repetitive disasters such as cyclone, flood, land slide, river erosion are also increasing. Now Bangladesh has floods two times a year. A data shows that- ‘over the next 40 years, 17 percent of the land will be lost to the sea resulting 20 million climate refugees because of climate change’. With a very high density of river systems, large parts of Bangladesh remain submerged during five months of monsoon so that millions of people living in river basins lack basic facilities since development have been concentrated around paved roads. Issues like this need local solution by the local people. So inspired by the lifestyle of the Bede community we realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to development rather they can be communication channels where services will be taken to the people by boats. So an attempt was made to transform the waterways into path ways for education, information and technology and in the process adopt and mitigate climate changes. We believe that it is possible to deal with this climate change, and at the same time, to lift people out of poverty. Thus in the macro level we hope to initiate sustainable water way development which will be adaptive to the present climate crisis.
2. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to information, they can be communication channels. Shidhulai is working to improve quality of life in flood prone areas by taking services to the people by boats.
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a non-profit organization, is working to improve quality of life in northern Bangladesh watersheds by taking services to the people by boats. These services include children’s education, libraries, training on sustainable agriculture, healthcare, adaptation strategies for climate change, waste management, computer education and Internet access.
Through the work of Shidhulai 88,000 families of hundreds of riverside villages are benefiting from improved education, sustainable agricultural practices, increased income, clean solar-powered lighting and communication with the outside world.
Hope above helps.
our milk production has increased by 30%
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/10/06/news25.asp
our human development index per the UN has grown more than half a point year upon year and we are at the top echelon for human development in our region
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Oct1254755696CH.html
We have excellent and comprehensive settlement programmes for IDPs with great partners such as China, Japan and Iran but the pricing needs to be brought in line with reality.
http://www.island.lk/2009/10/06/news12.html
Rohitha should be mindful of his words and actions vis-a-vis the foreign service
http://www.slbc.lk/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1408-government-emphasizes-that-sovereignty-will-not-be-sacrifice-for-perks-and-benefits-
No matter how the UN might postulate they should allow, accomodate and fund proper temporary accomodations for IDPs specifically getting this population out of tents and into structured units at IDP centers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8291963.stm
We thank the US State Department for issuing a retraction on the Clinton statement but the reality exists that proper protocols would encourage that such a detraction go to the head of state from a member of the Presidential Cabinet.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/10/06/news01.asp
It is very lopsided that there is allegedly 8 B US in the less than penny ante stock market but that there is no assistance for these greatly needed resettlement and livelihood programmes run per Central Government directive.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_438491.html
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=1286664376#
Isn’t 8B the same amount that went missing in the Timor Leste incident? I wonder if this is what Waldner-Ferrero considers aide?
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=318457&version=1&template_id=44&parent_id=24
Marvelous news about the President’s upcoming visit to the birthplace of the Buddha.
CHECK DRAFTS NOW RAJA/BEN B
CHECK DRAFTS NOW RAJA/GOTHY/PMR/BEN B
Nothing can stop the advancement of Srilanka. There may be minor hiccups now and then, but who doesn’t?
Poor Girl Cleaning Car for Livelihood. It is a national shame. Govt has failed miserably in fulfilling fundamental right and providing free education to ALL children of age 6 to 14, as guranteed under the Right to Education Act,fulifil and employing them gainfully for development of India.
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And now we have a story about one family in Beijing that is having their livelihood taken away by local authorities. We bring you the story of the Yu family.
STORY:
The Yu family has been selling drinks and snacks from this tiny shop in Beijing for decades. But not - it seems - for much longer. The local authority is giving their street a make-over ahead of the Olympics.
And all the other shops which used to line the street have agreed to make way for a lush green lawn.
[Yu Pingju, Shop Owner]:
“We are extremely worried. We don’t eat and we don’t sleep. We’re physically and mentally exhausted. But what can we do? This is our home.”
Yu Pingju lives with her extended family of 14. They range in age from four to 71. She says if they agree to move they’ll have nowhere to go.
[Yu Pingju, Shop Owner]:
“You can’t just wave an Olympic flag and infringe our property rights.”
The Yu’s aren’t the first to make a stand against the authorities over development for the Olympics. But they only have until Thursday to move or risk eviction.
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Hurricane Dean affected the farm’s production on Windward Islands where the small-scale farmers suffered the lost of their crops. With the support of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Humanitarian Office of the European Union (ECHO), Oxfam’s response was focused on helping small-scale farmers to recover their livelihoods.
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In the past years, carbon emission reduction from transportation & industries has remarkably remained obscure & unsettled, mainly because of threats to life & impending restrictions on livelihood and economy besides domestic concerns. As one of the means to curtail waste gases from transportation & industries, bio-fuels (as alternative energy) were adopted, coming from plants’ biomass or food materials or excrements. Recycling was also recommended as further means to stop or cut short industry production. But nothing much has changed because CO2 is also emitted by bio-fuels, bioreactors and other bio-technologies (i.e., the same waste gas problem) even though these have low carbon content or grade level. In making it into a law by some states, it apparently showed either confusion on the subject of varied carbon fuel sources. Unknowingly, methane grew since the world is unaware that, in extreme cases, there is a shortage or loss of O2 and burnt carbon takes up hydrogen instead, meaning: photosynthesis is immensely overtaken by respiration, causing a lop-sided leverage on O2 vs. CO2.
Pragmatically speaking, the treaty & its recommendations are deceitful being inconsistent or in total conflict with nature’s universal laws that were taught to us in basic sciences such as biology, chemistry & physics. UN & its scientists cannot entirely ignore or discard our empirical scientific facts (since time immemorial) and apply their own new & current studies in its final recommendations and then let the international treaty control. It is the primordial aim of scientists to apply these branches of sciences with which we should & must engage to determine which universal laws should be followed.
Contrary to studies of UN, the scientific community should not & must not entirely secure certainty on the objective of carbon emission reduction where no precise, accurate & careful scientific analyses were thoroughly rendered by UNEP, enveloping the subject of environment. There is no rationale that by suspending the production of CO2, we could eliminate warming. A compound of gas like CO2 can only be broken by chemical processes, not by just leaving it alone. We have to do something to lower the volume by breaking the compound in order to get its O2 as one of our goals to repair our ozone layer, to cool our atmosphere, to build the glaziers back, to strengthen our immune system and so forth.
To philosophize, it is analogous to say that the treaty can be compared for instance by telling people to reduce breathing, which may come from high level of CO2 respiration such as aerobic exercises. And therefore, this is absurd just as that of the treaty, isn’t it? The treaty would then be meaningless & senseless, completely unintelligible. If the treaty has no metaphysical explanation, why push something that is not based on approximation of the characteristics of the universe. As author Winston Kayanan from the Philippines has been telling the authorities, the topmost source of CO2 emissions actually come from soil carbon of organic matter (already eaten up by dominant microorganisms such as fungi, amoeba, decay bacteria & others) and loss of earth’s vegetations & forests (such as abandoned farms, ruined or destroyed lands by war, urban development & expansion, wildfires, etc. in which more than 60% is already desertified). And the best way to treat excess carbon in the atmosphere is carbon plant than carbon sink (as what scientists depend & rely on) or plant forest (as what UNFCCC had recommended).
In this dilemma, it is essential to ascertain what good effect such treaty will have upon the status of people (whether progressive or retrogressive, safe or dangerous, pro-life or anti-life). Without first finding the biological & chemical origin of carbon, the treaty is then bastardized. To simply elaborate this, let the author ask you these linking questions & answers on the subject of transportation & industries alone, to wit:
FIRST: Where do CO2 & CH4 waste gases come from? Answer: From carbon of burnt fossil fuels (be they good or bad combustion) like coal (with 90% carbon content) & oil (with 80% carbon content). In the absence of O2, methane is produced.
SECOND: Where do coal & oil come from? Answer: From dead plants & other organisms under the soil.
THIRD: Where do plants get their carbon? Answer: From top soil of fertile lands, rich in carbohydrates & other sugars (likewise of carbon compounds) via absorption other than CO2 in the atmosphere via photosynthesis.
FOURTH: Where is the origin of carbon? Answer: From decomposing organic matter, having as much as 30-35% carbon content.
From the foregoing reverse order of arrangement (from final destination to first appearance), UN & its scientists (including IPCC) stopped their studies after the second. They just followed the carbon cycle and did not continue from third to fourth to complete the fundamental evolutionary aspect of carbon known as organic
That is my biggest problem with the AGW theory. According to the IPCC and other climate scientists basically all CO2 and methane are man made and very little comes from nature. This doesn’t explain the 280ppm baseline for CO2 which was the level in the 1800’s prior to the huge industrial age take off. Especially before the building of thousands of coal burning power plants. One report that I skimmed from the IPCC said that a 80% reduction in man made CO2 will drop the level of CO2 from 380 ppm to around 240 ppm. How can you drop CO2 below the baseline when the baseline is from natural sources?
Orissa, one of the poorest states of India, is home of several clusters where a large share of its population earns a living. UNIDO has provided istance to improve their livelihood through cluster development.
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An immediate programme to develop the North within 180 days will be launched with the involvement of all Ministries.
A special meeting of the Presidential Task Force appointed by the President for the resettlement of Northern civilians of Social Welfare villages in their places of origin was held this afternoon. Secretaries of all Ministries participated in this meeting at the Presidential Secretariat. The participants took cognizance of the infrastructure and livelihood development of these civilians. A notable feature was the separate discussions held in this respect. Giving views at this meeting, Senior Presidential Advisor and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapakse underscored the need for the implementation of this development programme without harming the sovereignty of the country and without being subjugated by external influence.
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An immediate programme to develop the North within 180 days will be launched with the involvement of all Ministries.
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A special meeting of the Presidential Task Force appointed by the President for the resettlement of Northern civilians of Social Welfare villages in their places of origin was held this afternoon. Secretaries of all Ministries participated in this meeting at the Presidential Secretariat. The participants took cognizance of the infrastructure and livelihood development of these civilians. A notable feature was the separate discussions held in this respect. Giving views at this meeting, Senior Presidential Advisor and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapakse underscored the need for the implementation of this development programme without harming the sovereignty of the country and without being subjugated by external influence.
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“India’s Soul” - Krishnammal Jagannathan Awarded Right Livelihood for Realizing “Gandhian Vision of Social Justice and Sustainable Human Development”
We speak with Right Livelihood laureate, Krishnammal Jagannathan, an 82 year-old activist from southern India. She was active in the Gandhian struggle for Indian independence and the movement to restore land to the landless. With her husband she founded an organization called Land for the Tillers Freedom that has redistributed land to some 13,000 Dalit women. She and her husband received the Right Livelihood Award for two long lifetimes of work dedicated to realizing in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development, for which they have been referred to as Indias soul.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/8/indias_soul_krishnammal_jagannathan_awarded_right=
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