Community needs empathy not sympathy to sustain life
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This summary highlights the climate change–induced vulnerabilities faced by coastal and urban regions such as Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar, and Satkhira. These areas experience multiple climate hazards including heat waves, flooding, coastal erosion, cyclones, storm surges, salinity intrusion, tidal flooding, and water scarcity. Climate change has intensified both the frequency and severity of these events, placing communities under constant environmental stress.
The impacts extend beyond the environment and directly affect infrastructure, livelihoods, health, education, and access to clean water. Poor housing conditions, weak health systems, unsafe drinking water, and declining income sources increase exposure to disease, malnutrition, and insecurity of life. Non-environmental factors such as poor governance, lack of institutional and NGO support, low maintenance of infrastructure, gender harassment, and inadequate policy implementation further aggravate vulnerability.
Most of the affected populations fall under the high vulnerability category, as they lack adaptive capacity and timely support. The consequences include health risks, loss of livelihoods, low living standards, and the need for urgent medical and social assistance.
Overall, this case demonstrates that climate vulnerability is not only driven by natural hazards but is strongly shaped by socio-economic inequalities and governance gaps, emphasizing the need for integrated climate adaptation and social protection strategies.