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First off, Bangladesh has been on-net gaining land mass in recent years.

Quote: "Satellite images of Bangladesh over the past 32 years show that the country is growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles)" (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7532949.stm )

Now, it's true that that article claims that eventually sea level rise will overcome this, but the rate of sea level rise has actually not been accelerating in accordance with the predictions made back then - sea level has been continuing to rise at about the same low rate it had been doing for the last century. (Um, here's one source on that: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/current-wisdom-n... )

In short, if the people of Bangladesh have any reason to be concerned about "our lightbulbs", it's a distant future concern, not a current one.



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