April 7, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
America’s presidential candidates need to think more about how to help the world’s poor adapt to climate changes, writes Nicki Bennett, an Oxfam aid worker.
In On the Ground, a blog by The New York Times, she writes that the White House contenders have proposed cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but “none are talking about the impact of climate change on poor people -– or what they might do about the fact that places like Bangladesh and New Orleans are already being bashed by climate-related disasters and slowly losing land to rising sea levels.”
Bangladesh, where Ms. Bennett works, may lose 20 percent of its land in the next two decades thanks to rising sea levels and melting Himalayan glaciers, forcing millions of people to leave their villages, she writes.
