Opinion: Mozambique isn’t alone. Rising sea levels threaten millions in the developing world.
A family stands outside a cluster of submerged huts in central Mozambique on March 26 more than 10 days after a cyclone ripped across the country. By Mami Mizutori March 26 at 2:48 PM Mami Mizutori is head of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Media reports might suggest that there is something exceptional about Beira. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Humans have short memories when it comes to disasters, and our innate optimism often leads us to discount disaster risk to our own future cost.
As a new cyclone season gets underway in the Bay of Bengal, there is continued trepidation about the prospect of a storm that might hit the exposed Rohingya refugees densely packed into camps along that low-lying coast, where hundreds of thousands perished in the years before early warning systems were developed.
That threat adds another layer to preexisting risks that stem from rapid urbanization, the rise of slums in vulnerable locations, the absence of resilient infrastructure, failures in planning and the destruction of protective ecosystems such as mangrove forests.
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