Author: Arif Hossain

Our beloved Bangladesh—lush, fertile, and abundant with greenery—is truly a remarkable gift of nature. As a child, standing on the classroom bench and reciting Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem Aamader Chhoto Nodi (Our Little River), I would vividly imagine the beauty of rural life and the harmonious relationship between nature and people. Bangladesh, the land of six seasons, has always embodied a perfect union of life and landscape. In primary school, I first learned how the environment changes over time. Through the analogy of a greenhouse, I was introduced to the concept of global warming—how greenhouse gases, much like in a…