The global environment is the pivot on which each and every element of the living beings has to depend for its survival. None of us can expect to be exceptional of it. Wherever we live in this globe natural environment plays its inherent role to let us survive. Say it the role of solar or cosmic energy from cosmos or geological topography along with its huge geophysical masses abreast air and water, every atom in the natural phenomena acts directly or indirectly on each animal body that can never be exceptional for human creature.

Since unknown ages human beings had been exploring natural resource replenishment of their wants towards comforts and livelihood. They had to conquer nature surmounting hazardous impediments with stupendous struggle. The practice of such exploration has been continuing till now. Since huge scientific development discovery and works of innovation have been taken place to ameliorate the conditions of the human beings for the very wonderment of human achievement in science and technology is amazingly surprising.

In spite of such incredible achievement in scientific discovery and various innovative works of wonderment of the human a serious debacle is awaiting for all us ill the ensuing natural catastrophe due to the damaging effects on the ozone layers as most of the world scientists mentioned in their different scientific observations earlier.

The people all over the world have already come to know of this information of such hazardous devastating effects of interstice in ozone layers through different modern media communication system. It has also been assumed that this catastrophe would engulf most of the low-lying coasts of the world including deltaic Bangladesh.

Because geo-physically Bangladesh is in vulnerable position which appears to particularly be affected by such green-house effect on the rise of temperature within few years and as a result it will abrupt the rising seas deluging most of the low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh. We are urging the world communities to come to terms to be serious to remove causes of such green-house effect beyond human reach on account of excessive emission of C02 gas from their industrial establishments before time runs out.

Because here human efforts would be powerless against the revenge of nature. In this respect intransient policy of the USA UN's Kyoto Protocol could not reach to an agreement. However leaders of the Group of Eight were about to close to agreeing for substantial cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, June '07' at G-8 Summit of Heiligendamm in Germany where Germen Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed hard to include a goal in the G8 text that global emissions of green house gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have to he cut by 50 per cent below 1990 by 2050 and said, "such cuts are needed to ensure that global temperatures do not rise more than 2 Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a threshold the European Union says will trigger "Dangerous" changes in the climate system. Similarly Tobias Muenchmeyer of environment Group Greenpeace opined, "You need to keep the 50 per cent target or otherwise world temperatures will rise more than 2 Celsius." It was yet to be agreed upon by the G8. Hence apprehension is not out as yet.

On last Wednesday, June '07 a Dutch government-funded Agency reported that China had already overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use amid an economic boom.

Almost all scientists say rising amount of carbon dioxide will bring more draughts, floods, desertification, heat-waves, disease and rising seas.

The report based on data on energy use and cement production, reckoned China's carbon dioxide emissions totaled 6.2 billion metric tons in 2006. Of the total, 550 million tons was from cement, a main source of industrial emissions. V.S emissions totaled 5.8 billion metric tons last year, of which 50 million tons was from cement, it said.

Under the circumstances as reported above, we, in Bangladesh, can well imagine that we are depending much on the policies adopted by those leading industrial communities of the world towards reducing carbon dioxide emissions in order to avoid environmental disasters on our shores.

Notwithstanding that ours is a geophysical topography of cyclonic zone for which Bangladesh has to face almost every year the lashing disastrous effects of storm of any dimension along with the resultant tidal waves or flash floods as well as death of innumerable people along with damage and destruction of their properties.

Moreover some Bangladeshi scientists apprehend of earthquake from seismic signals also anywhere at any time in our country. Some earthquake-prone areas in Bangladesh have been detected by them. It is assumed that earlier frequent underground nuclear tests by some belligerent countries disturbed earth's stratifications which might have affected tectonic plates moving asunder creating tsunami and other natural disasters.

Now the question arises before us that should we always be surprised to face the onslaught of natural disasters unprepared? No. We must be prepared to face all sort of eventualities in the spirit of living human beings for ours is a policy of prevention that is better than cure. But how can we do that with our meagre resources?

We can do every good thing provided we possess a high morale for each and every individual of our heroic nation. We can not expect that handful government paid officials of police, BDR, Ansar, Fire or armed forces personnel will come to protect every individual at every nook and corner of the country in such overwhelming natural calamities or havocs. No. That can not be possible. Here is the need of absolute Civil Defence preparedness. Civil Defence volunteers are to be raised on war-footing and trained and equipped in a planned manner intensively throughout Bangladesh, so that every able-bodied person can face the ordeal with courage and determination. His/her skillfulness will come in such intensive and sometimes in extensive training. S/he will learn how to improvise things needed in the eventuality to face the imminent challenge. Because of the power of training in various Civil Defence methods volunteers will have the sense of security.

If needed a separate Civil Defence Department should be established on strong footing by the government unlike other countries of the world for the best interest of this nation. This training can be imparted to all sort of educated as well as uneducated people in all walks of life at any time preferable to trainees concerned with little or no expense. And this mass training will bring about high morale and cohesiveness among individuals as member-citizens of a great nation.

Thus the sense of duty and responsibility and honesty and integrity as the citizen will be developed methodically in Civil Defence training. The training programme must include disaster management as the pivotal means. By this way a general awareness will be created among the public. Civil Defence volunteers will also enhance their creativity by tree plantation in defence of ecology and by doing other social works for national cause.

-- The New Nation