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Dialogue About Climate Change
Model dialogue between two friends about climate change and its effect on Bangladesh.
Two friends discuss why Bangladesh is so exposed to climate change and what can still be done.
A dialogue between Rafi and Mehjabin
Rafi: Mehjabin, did you notice how late the winter came this year?
Mehjabin: I did. My grandmother says the seasons are not what they were when she was young.
Rafi: That is climate change, and Bangladesh is among the countries worst affected by it.
Mehjabin: Why us? We produce very little of the carbon that causes it.
Rafi: Because of our geography. We are a low, flat delta, so even a small rise in sea level takes a great deal of land.
Mehjabin: Is that already happening, or is it something for the future?
Rafi: It has begun. In the coastal districts, salt water has moved inland and farmers there cannot grow what they used to.
Mehjabin: And the cyclones seem to come more often than before.
Rafi: They do, and stronger. Warmer sea water gives a storm more energy.
Mehjabin: It sounds hopeless when you put it like that.
Rafi: It is not hopeless. Our cyclone shelters and warning system have already saved thousands of lives compared with 1991.
Mehjabin: So preparation makes a real difference.
Rafi: A great deal. And there is work to do here too — planting, protecting the mangroves, wasting less power.
Mehjabin: Then let us start with our own school. Shall we propose a plantation programme?
Rafi: Let us write to the headmaster this week.
Frequently Asked Questions
Because its geography makes it unusually exposed: a low flat delta where a small rise in sea level takes a lot of land, with salinity moving inland in the coastal districts and cyclones drawing strength from warmer water. That gives the dialogue concrete local content instead of generalities.
No. Ending on something the speakers can do — a plantation programme, a letter to the headmaster — is both better writing and closer to what examiners reward. A dialogue that ends in despair leaves the second speaker with nothing to say.
Not really, and inventing them is risky. Comparisons work better: that warning systems have saved lives compared with earlier cyclones, or that farmers can no longer grow what they used to. These are defensible without a figure.
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