Md. Abdullah-Al MAmun

Climate change is a progressive process and a fact that shackles can’t be pulled easily for a long time. It is a glowing truth that we invented the way of igniting the light by rubbing on the stones. It’s a constant truth that our ancient successors started the new changes and it’s the rule against nature resulting in unlimited suffering. From an article, I have gathered the concept that our civilization is now in the Metamodern era and in near future, we will be replaced by our creation named artificial intelligence which means we are being in an alternative. Is it not the proper way for human civilization to be extinct forever from the world? We created our civilization but not nature and holding the wheel of time many of our ancestors now are in the pages of history or the buzzing inconceivable issue for the researchers or historians.
In Bangladesh changing is undoubtedly nothing but the crumbling cliff of climate change. If we look at the climate survey of the last 15 years then can surely notice the summer is getting longer and the areas that used to get hotter are now being changed. In recent years maximum highest temperature now is being recorded in the southwest part which is shifted from the northeast part of Bangladesh. Given the present situation, we may producefood and necessities for ourselves but the worsening count up also be very nearer to us. The coastal part of Bangladesh is in very high-risk factor and the sea level is rising is a common affair ineveryone’s memory but does not illustrate legitimacy.
Our geographical area concept and the local knowledge which is inseparably incumbent to our culture and ecology. The inoperable belief must play a vital role in society and sustain human existence for long possible healing. When we start neglecting the local belief, way of living, culture, and indigenous knowledge against natural disasters, our existence may be drastically ravaged. We know Japan is a highly technological country and some of her islands are highly famous for fish markets. As we know Japan is a highly disaster-affected country and dangerous earthquakes and tsunamis are very common there. Different studies and researchhave been conducted by different institutions and faculties here at particular times. We can easily mention here that it is one of the most important findings that the fishermen are very expert to look into the matter and describe it very precisely and more definitely with their own experiences. When they go out fishing in the sea if the deep-sea fishes are been caught in shallow areas they certainly take it as a sign of a tsunami or typhoon. Birds make their nests just a generally heightened brunch of a tree once a year. But if the Birds suddenly start making their nest at the highest or top branches then the local people can assume surely that this year, Tsunami or Typhoon might come to that area with a pair of deadly disastrous hands. The importance of Indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction and management was highlighted during the Aceh Tsunami. The story of Simeuluean people who liveon the coastal island located west of the mainland of Sumatra island become an icon for the value of local knowledge among others, even in 2008 United Nations (ISDR) took this experience into an agenda in a report on Indigenous knowledge for disaster risks reduction: Good Practices and lesson learned from experiences in the Asia Pacific region.
In recent times many parts of Bangladesh are affected by floods and surely as an agrarian-based economy, it is highly tough for us to recover it each year. We all know the problem is rising like an unbearable flame each year and we cannot cope with the situation and formulation in no other way. Different types of initiatives are taken by both our government and non-govt. organization in certain times which are not so applicable and sometimes the developments have been sighted as disasters in many times indeed. Development must be needed for us and sometimes sustainable development initiatives are gone to wrong for the lack of local knowledge or sometimes intentionally or surreptitiously the authorities overlap the belief and knowledge. Here we can add an example of the result of imbricating to the future culture and society.In the year 2000, the southwest part of Bangladesh overflowed for the first time suddenly but was massively affected by flood and the people were very frightened and oscillated by the sudden disaster. In Bangladesh, the southwest part districts are mainly Jessore, Jhenaidah, and Shatkhira. For the first time, people of the border parts were the worst sufferers, and the socio-economic structure had been completely extirpating. Because in that time people near border areas lived in their traditional houses built with Mud, Bamboo and used Nipa palm (Locally known as Golpata) or hay (locally known as Khor) as sheds. The disaster completely destroyed the traditional houses and on the contrary, numerous NGOs and Aid organizations extended their so-called helping hands to change the traditional house into a new form of building made with tin and indestructible pillars made with cement. Still, these traditional buildings are very rare to view and some couldn’t reform again because of so-called modern multistoried buildings.
Most of the houses in our countryside had been beautified with betel nut and coconut trees for hundreds of years. But for the last few years, the production of coconut has decreased shockingly and the size of shells isalso getting smaller day after day. People usually planted coconut trees for their own and in different situations, it played a very prestigious issue for the householder when a relative came for an occasion or any purpose would be felicitated by green coconut water or juice made by lemon from house yard. But in the evolution of time, this traditional system has been taken place by modern carbonate drinks and other processed foods. This is a very common phenomenon in our so-called newly globalized countryside. Nowadays in our country areas, people are inspired to plant ‘Vietnami’ coconut trees instead of our traditional coconut trees. It is a piece of very alarming news that some of our farmers are highly victims of loss for cultivating this exotic variety. For a much bigger coconut shell, this kind of exotic tree should not be taken place of our traditional ones.
In our country, tropical cyclones are very common to people near coastal areas. Here is an explanation of tropical cyclones and their actual time of devastation. According to the Encyclopedia, a tropical cyclone, also called a typhoon or hurricane, is an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans and is characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds, and heavy rain. Drawing energy from the sea surface and maintaining its strength as long as it remains over warm water, a tropical cyclone generates winds that exceed 119 km (74 miles) per hour. In extreme cases, winds may exceed 240 km (150 miles) per hour, and gusts may surpass 320 km (200 miles) per hour. Accompanying these strong winds are torrential rains and a devastating phenomenon known as the storm surge, an elevation of the sea surface that can reach 6 meters (20 feet) above normal levels. Such a combination of high winds and water makes cyclones a serious hazard for coastal areas in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Every year during the late summer months (July-September in the Northern Hemisphere and January-March in the Southern Hemisphere), cyclones strike regions as far apart as the Gulf Coast of North America, northwestern Australia, eastern India, and Bangladesh.
Apart from these things our country is facing a dangerous new disaster named attack of a thunderstorm.According to Bangladesh Meteorological Departmentover the past 10 years, lightning strikes have killed at least 2,800 people in Bangladesh, with a majority of the victims being farmers, official data shows. KawsarParvin, the deputy director of the Storm Warning Center at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, said climate change has amplified the frequency of lightning strikes in Bangladesh, increasingthe rising number of fatalities each year. Parvin said. “Lightning strikes mostly occur during the pre-monsoon, monsoon, and post-monsoon seasons. But this period is widening due to climate change and changing weather patterns. We are now seeing lightning strikes when they’re not supposed to happen.”
Now it’s time for talking about the prevention steps taken by local knowledge with the help of modern technologies. We must follow the immense steps by installing lightning antennas and earthing systems, and ensure that building codes are properly followed for houses and high-rise buildings. But in recent times animplied project planting new palm trees to avoid lightning strikes has not seen the light of success because of avoiding the local knowledge and belief. We believe in development but not overlapping the ideas and beliefs of local inhabitants. The local people have strong reasoning and long-term observation that lightning strikes always fall in a certain place of the covered areas. That is why the necessary steps should be taken according to the knowledge of local inhabitants. We have to plant new palm and coconut trees to prevent death from lightning strikes but with the help of local knowledge.
We live in a metamodern world that cannot be exaggerated but must be concluded also in a line that climate change is no longer some far-off problem, it is happening here; it is happening now. But no improvement may see the hope of light by disparaging local people or their knowledge. Our government should take a development policy to avoid development disasters.

The writer is novice of Anthropology and Assistant Manager at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro