Farmers like Khalilur Rahman in India’s Assam state are used to anticipating floods. But this year’s monsoon rains were different – intense, giving no warning of flooding. “We had never found it so difficult before. The flood came thrice,” says the jute and rice farmer. Climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events in India, which is home to one-third of the world’s poor. And it is they who pay the heaviest price for global warming. “There is nowhere for me to go,” says Rahman. If I had money, I could have bought land in a place which could not be breached by floods... I will have to die here.” WATCH: Flooded By Climate Change: Will India Sink Or Swim? https://youtu.be/wyrpV5msbZk This episode of #Insight asks: Can India mitigate the adverse impact of climate change and flooding without jeopardising its economic growth objectives to pull millions out of poverty? ALSO WATCH: War For Water: What Happens When Asia's Rivers Dry Up? https://youtu.be/oL-ejcX7GLA Asia Heats Up: When Global Warming Becomes Deadly: https://youtu.be/yuz9y8Zxa_U Sink Or Swim? Asia's Sinking Villages Engulfed By Rising Seas: https://youtu.be/hA_bCRjqo9o Surviving Drought: The Fight To Reclaim Asia's Lost Lands: https://youtu.be/NGjxnma2Y2c For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://ift.tt/2C3sZiR Facebook: https://ift.tt/2PPEuNA Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider
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