A Sky Full of Living Reminiscences
Looking at the stars Samia tries to connect her adorable emotion with the cruel reality. She is now floating on their once beloved house. Suddenly a thunderous sound coming from her stomach reminds her that the bread she ate yesterday has started fading in her body. All her senses are telling her that she needs to eat something. But she rejects the unneeded messages coming from her thoughts because she knows that she won’t be able to consume anything because there isn’t any at the moment. When she looks up at the sky, she notices that her memories are being obscured by a weird tint. These memories were the happiest truths in Samia’s life just a few days ago. Suddenly the sky transforms into a reflection of her prized possessions. “Ratul, Samia, come eat my children, the dinner is ready,” a familiar voice says as she sees her brother Ratul playing with their cow Jamuna. The voice is familiar to Samia. It belongs to her mother. Unanswered tears begin to cloud Samia’s eyes.
Samia, a fifteen-year-old girl who had just witnessed her mother and brother perish in the river, tries to conceal her grief from her father. Samia understands that she must now look after her father, as she is the only member of her family left. She now has to shoulder all of the obligations. Samia tries to sleep while thinking about all of these unexpected thoughts. Samia mumbles in her head, “There’s a lot of work to be done tomorrow,” and attempts to sleep with an empty stomach and watery eyes. However, a troubling issue keeps her awake at night: “why does this continually happen to us?” Is it because we are impoverished that this is the case? Perhaps it is. Being impoverished in this country may be a crime.” At long last, the teen’s treasured and unanswered tears begin to pour from the corner of her eyes.
Samia, a Bangladeshi adolescent, is the protagonist of the story. During a flood in their hamlet, she lost her house, her mother, her younger brother, who was just four years old, and her beloved cow Kali. She and her father are now attempting to live, not just survive. Unfortunately, Samia is not the only girl, there are thousands of people like Samia who lost their everything because of the crucial effects of climate change. Every year lots of villages in Bangladesh are facing lives taking troubles because of natural disasters, especially because of floods. River erosion is frequently the cause or outcome of floods. As a result, lives, land, and property have been lost, and people have been displaced. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change scenarios, particularly floods, due to its location on the global map in the South Asian region.
Bangladesh, a low-lying delta with a dense network of rivers, has always been vulnerable to natural disasters, regardless of climate change.
However, it’s not only about Bangladesh where climate change is attacking continuously, the whole world is facing the deadly impact of climate change. But if the exact interpretation needs to be given then it must be stated that the low-income countries or the developing countries are paying the bill.
Because countries like Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Nigeria, and so on can’t afford to give proper attention to their natural welfare as they have roughly growing people to take care of. These are the countries where thousands of people become jobless every year, where mothers die giving birth to a child, where girls still can’t accomplish their dreams. These developing countries have so many things to sort out at the same time.
So, the changes in climate effects mostly these low-income countries, and the underprivileged people of these countries have to face the worst situation in an ongoing circle. However, it will no longer be surprising to learn that our climate is warming. What may surprise us, though, is that a new study claims that every two seconds, a catastrophe drives someone to flee their house somewhere in the world. According to Oxfam’s Forced from the Home report, harsh weather has displaced 20 million people every year over the last decade. That’s the same as the people of Beijing, China’s capital city, being forced to abandon their homes every year. This expanding hazard affects everyone, but poor countries are more vulnerable than their wealthier counterparts. According to Oxfam’s study, people in poor and middle-income countries around the world are four times more likely than those in wealthier countries to be displaced by major weather catastrophes. This is even though poorer countries are responsible for a smaller proportion of the CO2 emissions that are causing the crisis. Even though poorer countries bear the brunt of the world’s polluting practices, climate change is a global issue. It’s no surprise that the last 22 years have seen the 20 warmest years on record. CO2 levels in the atmosphere are at their greatest point in human history. According to Oxfam, the international community needs to create a new “loss and damage” financial mechanism to aid poorer countries in recovering from climate disasters.
The overall impact of climate change is more difficult to quantify because it includes population displacement and a variety of other factors such as food production and crop yield, as well as an increase in heat that will limit labor productivity from farmers in tropical regions, among other things. By 2050, the world could see a net increase of 529,000 adult deaths due to climate change-related food shortages.
By 2030, climate change might push 100 million people into extreme poverty, and poverty makes individuals more susceptible to health issues. The world needs to recover, otherwise, the continuously increasing impact of climate change will overthrow the entire population of the planet.
