Shonar Bangla’s slow erosion

Shonar Bangla’s slow erosion

Why is the environment in Bangladesh still treated as something peripheral to real governance or nation-building? It is telling that even the interim government under Muhammad Yunus, who envisions a world with three zeroes (one being carbon emissions) at the helm of power – negotiating the pressing need of an election against necessary reforms – does not see that perhaps the issue of climate needs to be addressed along with other reforms. A cabi…