delta country and with sea level rising every year; it definitely is one of the countries affected by climate change. Flooding is very common during the monsoon season; everyone knows about it, it is like an open secret, and has become part of our daily lives. However with the changes in temperature and rise in sea level things are lot more different. Tropical Cyclones are more frequent, with their intensity
increasing every year. This results in
substantial destruction in property and livelihood of the people. As a agricultural dependant country as well, the damage to crops is unrecoverable. In terms of weather patterns, which I have been seeing for the last 16 years, there has been noticeable change. In Bangladeshi culture and our Bengali calendar, we normally are supposed to have six seasons. Now hardly any of the six seasons can be understood. During winter, there is hardly any significant drop in the mercury within the capital city. Probably every alternate year, a slight hint of winter is observed. Our summer this year has not started yet properly and it is already unbearably hot. I cannot imagine when summer comes how hot it is going to get. Basically in a nutshell, climate change has not only increased rainfall, rising sea level and tropical cyclones for Bangladesh, it has and will be affecting things like agriculture, water, food security, human health and shelter.
Nektarina (S)pace: It often seems that big carbon polluters (countries like USA, Canada etc) do not realize that we are all interconnected and that carbon emissions in one part of the world impact the entire planet. Could you comment on that? Muhammad Faheem Faruq: I really do not understand why the big carbon 77