Climate change!
Perhaps talking about biodiversity or wildlife protection and conservation is against the present-day politics and those who speak about it are also on the wrong side of politics. The reason is 'CHANGE' - change in politics, change in time (DST), change in office time, change in the season (winter is approaching), change in wind direction and finally the most important 'CLIMATE CHANGE'. Climate change has earned so much fame that for anything good or bad, the admiration or the criticism - IT IS CLIMATE CHANGE.
The Buriganga river does not have any life - it is because of climate change.
The untreated effluents discharged in the rivers are killing aquatic life - it is climate change.
Land grabbers filling in floodplains for housing or other purposes - it is climate change.
Forest land acreage declining due to land conversion, deforestation, etc - it is climate change.
Tiger population is declining - it is climate change.
Gharials are on the verge of extinction - it is climate change.
Dolphins are disappearing from our rivers - it is climate change.
Freshwater turtles, frogs declining - it is climate change.
Use of lethal chemicals to increase shelf-life of fruits, vegetables - it is climate change.
Forest department cannot stop poaching - due to climate change.
So, we see that many bad things are being done by climate change. BUT nothing to worry. Climate change has done one big favour for us that to make news line headings just use CLIMATE CHANGE, for anything that can not be explained use CLIMATE CHANGE, to ask for money use CLIMATE CHANGE and so on. If you mention the problems and/or highlight/address the root cause - you are on the wrong side. Our biodiversity/wildlife really need friends like 'friends in need are friends indeed' and not friends who change with the climate change. The root causes of wildlife extinction - the human elements - are to be addressed.
I would like someone to enlighten me that how the thirteen species mentioned in the news item got extinct due to impacts of climate change (DS 5 Nov 2009). To be exact the news item mentioned 'climate change and man-made adverse environment' emphasizing climate impacts as the major culprit whereas it should have been the other way round. Studies on the Bangladeshi wildlife are yet to be conducted to establish any concrete evidence on the impact of Climate Change. The information published by the 4th assessment report of the IPCC are predictions and these predictions were based on certain models (the same information is being used over and over again) that are proving wrong as the authors themselves are now saying that things are changing faster than they had predicted earlier - We also see a CHANGE here.
I wish that this CHANGE FEVER ends soon and we get back to the real world and save the life forms and their habitats that we are knowingly destroying.
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