Global Warming

Nature Resolves Human Dispute: Global Warming As Peace Maker

A heated discussion between India and Bangladesh has been cooled down by global warming. Global Warming appears to have resolved a dispute that gunboats never could: An island midway between India and Bangladesh that became a flash point for military threats in the 1980s is submerged under the rising seas. Island, which the Indians call [...]

A heated discussion between India and Bangladesh has been cooled down by global warming.

Global Warming appears to have resolved a dispute that gunboats never could: An island midway between India and Bangladesh that became a flash point for military threats in the 1980s is submerged under the rising seas.

Island, which the Indians call New Moore island and the Bangladeshis call South Talpatti lies in the Bay of Bengal, a region with large potential reserves of gas and oil. Satellite imagery shows the island now submerged, declared by the director of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta.

The island was about 3.5 kilometres long and three kilometres wide and situated four kilometres from the mouth of the Hariabhanga River, the waterway that marks a stretch of the border between south-western Bangladesh and India.

Sugata Hazra, has revealed that after evaluating the satellite images and sea patrol data, any trace of the island has not been found. The oceanographer further divulged that after consulting local fisherman, it has been confirmed that the island has vanished except being visible for brief period of time during low tides.

It is an unusual example of the effects of global climate change, rising sea that certainly resolve a troublesome territorial dispute between two of the world’s most populated countries. Experts have long warned that climate change would worsen such conflicts over territory and natural resources.

So at last it can be concluded that climate change is the greatest threat to humankind after nuclear war. But in the case of New Moore island a possible peace dividend of climate change. “If somebody could [figure out how] it would stop all kinds of war, that will also help us reduce emissions.