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Air Date: Week of April 21, 2006
Actors in the play, "Environmental Thinking: Where will we go?" dance and wail to bring the message of climate change to hundreds of villagers in southwest Bangladesh. (Emilie Raguso)
When scientists discuss countries at risk from the potential effects of climate change, they point to Bangladesh. Just above sea level, and in the flood plain of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, 144 million people live in a space the size of Wisconsin. Producers Sandhya Somashekhar and Emilie Raguso report on what’s at stake for Bangladesh.
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CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth. I’m Steve Curwood. The most populated nation directly in the crosshairs of global warming is Bangladesh. With tens of millions of people living at or just slightly above sea level, many of the citizens of this impoverished and overcrowded country could be forced to flee their homes before the century is out. International aid organizations and the Bangladeshi governm
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Polly Lower just quit her job because of Obamacare, said Sandhya -Somashekhar in WashingtonPost.com. Her boss abruptly changed her job description, giving her duties she despised. Not long ago, the 56-year-old Indiana woman would have been forced to stay on the job just to keep her medical benefits, but she discovered that under the new health-care law, she could buy a policy for her husband and herself for less than $500 a month. So she quit and became a full-time babysitter for her 5-year-old granddaughter. “It was wonderful,’’ Lower said. “It was very freeing.” Last week, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Affordable Care Act will enable legions of people like Lower to reduce their hours or leave the workforce without losing their health insurance—the equivalent of a loss of 2.3 million full-time jobs by 2021. Conservatives mendaciously pounced on the figures as proof that Obamacare is a job killer, said Paul Krugman in