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The Rise of Urbanization

Different cycles exist and go round and round at the same time. It is not a coincidence but that’s how nature works. Cycles are interconnected and interrelated and one wrong disturbance in the gear can be disastrous and this is what has happened in our case. Skipping many pages of history, let us start with the dawn of ‘development’ – the modernization paradigms and all. Development sure is challenging and with the rise of industrialization, the rampant rise of industries and most of the times in Least Development Countries like Bangladesh, they go unplanned. Soon, they create a surge of migration and what flowers is unplanned urbanization. Land is less and people find themselves living on top of each other. Arable land becomes a lush concrete jungle and what’s not in the picture – the rampant use of natural resources to fulfill the black hole that we have on earth – development. Brewing slowly then is a threat, so powerful that mankind could become extinct. As natural resources get consumed at an abnormal rate and carbon emissions continue to grow, the fertility of nature dwindles. The entire ecosystem is in danger as power hungry system chokes the roots of nature and about cycles, we all once appeared for exams, right?

The brick kilns in Savar, Dhaka puff round the clock manufacturing the building blocks. Natural resources are getting used up. The smoke is in the air. Laborers have migrated from different parts in millions. Fix the jigsaw puzzle and you see that the environment is a time bomb we’ve ourselves created. Air pollution or carbon emissions have severe impacts in the ozone layer. The depletion of the ozone layer or the greenhouse effect is something that we’ve known for a long time, haven’t we but still the brick kilns in Savar, Dhaka puff round the clock.