Climate Change: Bangladesh Faces Grim Fate

Bangladeshis are bearing the burden of a climate change problem thatthey've done little to create. As leading nations converge at theclimate change conference in Copenhagen, Bangladesh continues to face agrim fate should global warming continue at an accelerated pace. Bymid-century, one-fifth of the nation could be under water, renderingabout 20 million people homeless.

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