Thread by @fascinatorfun

Do watch @BBC 2 Climate Change- Ade- even if you think you are not that interested.

Bangladesh & Bhutan.

It given you a sense of the personal stories. Individual people’s homes & dreams.

Also v interesting re Covid. You can SEE the travel connections- the way people love

Dakar, the capital city is experiencing massive immigration from people migrating to try and avoid the consequences of climate change.

And he visits Bhutan. Roughly the size of Switzerland but 750k people

It is gorgeous.

It isn’t just carbon neutral. It is carbon negative,

I was booked to visit it on a walking holiday c15 years ago.

“if you dropped your camera you’d still have a gorgeous photo”.

But the holiday was cancelled. Not enough people.

It was expensive but I thought it would be special.

I see this programme. I think it would’ve been

Here is a rather wonderful article on how Bhutan, a country bordering both China and India, with its limited resources, responded to Covid so skilfully, despite just 1 ICU specialist and 1 PCR machine

6th March 2020: First case, an American tourist.

6 hours and 18 minutes later 300 contacts and contacts of contacts and maybe contacts had been traced.

Do read it. And watch the programme for the scenery and the warmth of spirit, if nothing else.

It is the highest country in the world. Glaciers.

https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1359508766329290755?s=21

So many glaciers. So much ice.

Melt water from glaciers around the world is thought to account for 1/3rd rising water.

Plenty of villages downstream.

Bhutan does not have a traffic light or TV until 1999.

The President drives himself. In an electric car.