Mean Sea Level : Free London Screening of New Film
jo | 13.11.2008 16:11 | Climate Chaos | Migration | Ocean Defence
The Sacred Media Cow film makers return with a look at how some remote islands in the Bay of Bengal are literally vanishing beneath the waves. You are invited to Central London for a free screening of this new film and a discussion with the Director Pradip Saha.
Mean Sea Level invitation flyer
Mean Sea Level: A film by Pradip Saha
Around 7500 Kms from the heart of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] in Geneva or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] secretariat in Bonn, Ghoramara and Sagar islands are going through their own testimony of climate change related phenomena.
'Mean Sea Level' takes us through the story of the inhabitants of these small islands at the southern tip of the Indo-Gangetic Delta. Almost 7000 inhabitants have been forced to leave Ghoramara in the last 30 years, as the island has become half in size. The biggest island, Sagar which hosted refugees from other islands all these years is witnessing massive erosion now. 70000 people in the 9 sea-facing islands are at the edge of losing land in next 15 years. For these people climate change is real.
Rising Sea level, 2mm a year is resulting in daily insecurity for home and livelihoods. Experience of this new breed of climate refugees are a little different from simplistic explanation of sea level rise that will cover their islands with water. The rivers in this delta have to meet the sea at a higher level and they need extra space to hold the water. These rivers break islands 24/7 to create the extra space. People face a constant loss of their land and home to erosion, and keep on moving inside the islands till there is no space.
Sheikh Lalmohan lost his home in an island Lohachara 18 years ago, and lives in a refugee camp in Sagar island. Kavita Shil keeps on moving her house inside island in Ghoramara as the water eats up her house. All these happened while we debated climate change.
There is a greater irony. These poor people got nothing out of the economy that created climate change, nor do they contribute to global warming. 'Mean Sea Level' is a testimony of reckless political economy of our times. Climate change is real, and only a sign of our recklessness.
The film will be screened at the Khalili Auditorium, SOAS, Russell Square Campus on November 21st, 2008 at 7 pm. It will be followed by a question and answer session with Pradip.
================
Venue : Khalili Auditorium, SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Telephone or Text Pradip : +91 98 101 97 014
Date : 21 November 2008
Time : 7pm
Around 7500 Kms from the heart of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] in Geneva or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] secretariat in Bonn, Ghoramara and Sagar islands are going through their own testimony of climate change related phenomena.
'Mean Sea Level' takes us through the story of the inhabitants of these small islands at the southern tip of the Indo-Gangetic Delta. Almost 7000 inhabitants have been forced to leave Ghoramara in the last 30 years, as the island has become half in size. The biggest island, Sagar which hosted refugees from other islands all these years is witnessing massive erosion now. 70000 people in the 9 sea-facing islands are at the edge of losing land in next 15 years. For these people climate change is real.
Rising Sea level, 2mm a year is resulting in daily insecurity for home and livelihoods. Experience of this new breed of climate refugees are a little different from simplistic explanation of sea level rise that will cover their islands with water. The rivers in this delta have to meet the sea at a higher level and they need extra space to hold the water. These rivers break islands 24/7 to create the extra space. People face a constant loss of their land and home to erosion, and keep on moving inside the islands till there is no space.
Sheikh Lalmohan lost his home in an island Lohachara 18 years ago, and lives in a refugee camp in Sagar island. Kavita Shil keeps on moving her house inside island in Ghoramara as the water eats up her house. All these happened while we debated climate change.
There is a greater irony. These poor people got nothing out of the economy that created climate change, nor do they contribute to global warming. 'Mean Sea Level' is a testimony of reckless political economy of our times. Climate change is real, and only a sign of our recklessness.
The film will be screened at the Khalili Auditorium, SOAS, Russell Square Campus on November 21st, 2008 at 7 pm. It will be followed by a question and answer session with Pradip.
================
Venue : Khalili Auditorium, SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Telephone or Text Pradip : +91 98 101 97 014
Date : 21 November 2008
Time : 7pm
jo
e-mail:
jo_abbess@hotmail.com
Homepage:
http://www.sacredmediacow.com
Comments
Hide the following comment
Sea level rise maps
14.11.2008 13:58
Flood Maps
This site allows you to pick a level between +1m and +14m and it overlays a light blue shading for areas below the level you pick, it has a fairly fine resolution.
Sea Level Rise Explorer
This site overlays colours indicating levels above sea level from +1m to +70m (which represents an estimate of the sea level rise if all the ice on the planet melts, something that would take generations). This overlay appears to have a resolution of about 1 sq Km.
Chris