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What can we do as computer scientists to best militate this risk and protect human life?

by n-exploit 7y ago

rayiner 7y ago
Almost certainly, nothing. Wrong skill set.
- sanbor 7y ago
  Maybe not directly but software engineers are in a good position this days to find work easily and get a good salary. Maybe support financially organizations that fight global warming?
loblollyboy 7y ago
Pay for their plane tickets out of there
homakov 7y ago
It is up to their alley. Giving birth to less children, raising them better, solving poverty. Knowing Bangladesh, unlikely
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  It's all but certainly too late for birthrate changes alone to reduce population within the anticipated timeframe. That leaves emigration or mortality increases, barring further food miracles.
  - homakov 7y ago
    Yes, regards water level it won't do much (I missed parent's point), but it doesn't hurt to have less children and give them better education vs the way it is now.
- barry-cotter 7y ago
  Or they could maintain the same birth rate and use technology that was well understood before anyone in this board was born. Huge portions of the Low Countries have been prosperous and below sea level for centuries. It requires dykes, ditches, windmills and uninterrupted competent engineering organisations. Dutch history shows that’s adequate for keeping land 2m below sea level inhabited and rich. Any rise greater than that and they might have to break out technology more advanced than windmills. It’s a massive engineering challenge but unless Bangladesh is built on limestone so the bedrock is porous it’s an engineering challenge that WWII technology would have been sufficient to.
  - nradov 7y ago
    Unfortunately the geology and geography of Bangladesh means that dikes won't be effective. What worked in the Netherlands won't work there. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfolding-tragedy-of-climate-change-in-bangladesh/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfoldin... Closer to home, South Florida will eventually have similar problems. The whole region sits on permeable limestone so dikes are pointless.
Iv 7y ago
Make sure the Bengali alphabet is working in whatever software you are doing.
- pts_ 7y ago
  Even better create robust Bengali NLP models.
- jdboyd 7y ago
  How does that help? I'm being serious in asking.
  - Iv 7y ago
    It makes IT tools more accessible to the common person in Bangladesh. More likely to use it correctly, to master it.
m0llusk 7y ago
Ask yourself in Bengali: "Dil ki doya?" (Translated: Is there mercy in your heart?)

What can we do as computer scientists to best militate this risk and protect human life?

rayiner 7y ago

Almost certainly, nothing. Wrong skill set.

sanbor 7y ago
Maybe not directly but software engineers are in a good position this days to find work easily and get a good salary. Maybe support financially organizations that fight global warming?

loblollyboy 7y ago

Pay for their plane tickets out of there

homakov 7y ago

It is up to their alley. Giving birth to less children, raising them better, solving poverty. Knowing Bangladesh, unlikely

dredmorbius 7y ago
It's all but certainly too late for birthrate changes alone to reduce population within the anticipated timeframe. That leaves emigration or mortality increases, barring further food miracles.
- homakov 7y ago
  Yes, regards water level it won't do much (I missed parent's point), but it doesn't hurt to have less children and give them better education vs the way it is now.
barry-cotter 7y ago
Or they could maintain the same birth rate and use technology that was well understood before anyone in this board was born. Huge portions of the Low Countries have been prosperous and below sea level for centuries. It requires dykes, ditches, windmills and uninterrupted competent engineering organisations. Dutch history shows that’s adequate for keeping land 2m below sea level inhabited and rich. Any rise greater than that and they might have to break out technology more advanced than windmills. It’s a massive engineering challenge but unless Bangladesh is built on limestone so the bedrock is porous it’s an engineering challenge that WWII technology would have been sufficient to.
- nradov 7y ago
  Unfortunately the geology and geography of Bangladesh means that dikes won't be effective. What worked in the Netherlands won't work there. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfolding-tragedy-of-climate-change-in-bangladesh/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfoldin... Closer to home, South Florida will eventually have similar problems. The whole region sits on permeable limestone so dikes are pointless.

Iv 7y ago

Make sure the Bengali alphabet is working in whatever software you are doing.

pts_ 7y ago
Even better create robust Bengali NLP models.
jdboyd 7y ago
How does that help? I'm being serious in asking.
- Iv 7y ago
  It makes IT tools more accessible to the common person in Bangladesh. More likely to use it correctly, to master it.

m0llusk 7y ago

Ask yourself in Bengali: "Dil ki doya?" (Translated: Is there mercy in your heart?)